Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled Protestant army chaplain, hard-bitten Major Kartuschke's bluster, meant only one thing-another German had chloroformed his conscience. In twelve hours, one of Major Kartuschke's prisoners-21-year-old Lance Corporal Fedor Baranowski-would be shot by a firing squad. Curiosity and compassion impelled the chaplain to find out why. Through a long, anguished night, he wrestled with a stack of court-martial papers...
...kind of talk that Americans approved and understood. Apparently, Communists understood it too. After three days of bluster, the Communists backed down. When the talking began again, Kaesong was truly a neutral city. Reported the U.N. delegates of the new truce discussions: "Some progress was made...
...Asian deserts to the Indian Ocean?" And when British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh opposed a puppet Poland under Russian control, "he was curtly informed that Russia, already in occupation of Poland, possessed an army of 600,000 men." Most familiar of all: "[Castlereagh] knew that the Czar would bluff and bluster from gain to gain so long as he thought that the West was pacific and divided...
Colonel von Broeck (Robert Douglas) and his operatives ply the flyers (Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor) with hospitality, prod them with bluster and, when advisable, brutality. They get what they want by playing on the Americans' individual strengths and weaknesses: regional pride, naiveté, cockiness, loyalty to each other. The picture's exposition of enemy intelligence tricks and U.S. airmen's gullibility is so carefully rigged that it makes the Germans look clever enough to have won the war hands down. But it is still absorbing stuff...
...Tablet, ". . . have been smug, condescending, derisive, some with unconcealed glee, some with an affectation of pity; all are agreed that there is a great failure to celebrate ... I believe the truth is that they have detected in him something they find quite unforgivable-Decent Feeling. Behind all the bluster and cursing and fisticuffs he has an elementary sense of chivalry-respect for women, pity for the weak, love of honor-which keeps breaking in. There is a form of high supercilious caddishness which is all the rage nowadays in literary circles. That is what the critics seek in vain...