Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind all this bluster were genuine misgivings, and perhaps...
...Eisenhower's speech, it would be hard for an enemy to find a sign of weakness, just as hard for the timid and the neutralists to find bluster or swagger. By stating the American position more vigorously than ever before he had summoned the nations to face with resolution the appalling fact that Communism and The Atom exist in the same world...
...decisions of foreign policy are not easy. Last week, after eight years of procrastination, the U.S. and Britain came to a decision on the Trieste issue (see INTERNATIONAL). It may be hard, in the face of Tito's bluster, to make the Trieste verdict stick. But on this and a thousand other points, the danger is too great for continued vacillation. With no net below, the trapeze requires caution, but it also requires an alert eye and a quick, unfaltering hand...
...wards." Besides, said Sir Geoffrey, too many surgeons wax theatrical before a student audience, "give tongue only to reprimands or agonized cries about the incompetence of their assistants . . . This is often good entertainment, [but it is] a bad example to their juniors who may come to believe that bluster and theatrical imbecilities are the sign of a good surgeon...
Quite overcome, Brazil's Joao Carlos Muniz cried that he foresaw a possible "turning point in history." Andrei Vishinsky, who had arrived in October accusing the U.S. of "bluster and blackmail," now announced that "the rays of sunshine are visible through the clouds." Everybody was at least grateful for Vishinsky's present politeness, however temporary...