Word: blustered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam, with his usual bluster, warned Iraqis that "another great battle" had begun. After another ultimatum from Bush on Friday, the Iraqis promised to allow weapons inspectors to fly to Baghdad, but would not guarantee their safety. The crisis escalated through the weekend when Iraqi radar threatened U.S. jets over the northern no-fly zone and an American F-16 shot down an Iraqi MiG-29. Baghdad seemed intent on contesting control of its skies. Washington said that Saddam would receive no further warning before the U.S. retaliated in force. (See related story on page...
Remember: Some Stars Are Worth the Paycheck. He broods, suicidally, about his blindness. He snarls orders like the Army lieutenant colonel he once was. He pretends to a worldliness that is not entirely authentic, and he can't quite hide the arrested adolescent lurking beneath his spit, polish and bluster. Frank Slade is a piece of work, all right, and playing him Al Pacino is always an actor acting -- in love with his own prodigious technique. For which, thank heaven, it permits him to range boldly outside the conventional lines of Bo Goldman's script for Scent of a Woman...
Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...
...Limbaugh are that everything he says could be filed under Political-Science Fiction. That's because he wants it both ways. * He wants to be taken seriously as a pundit by those he convinces and indulged as a comedian by those he might outrage. He considers himself, with typical bluster, "the epitome of morality and virtue" and "the most dangerous man in America." Are most of his facts factual? Yes. Does he overuse the debater's tactic of tarring whole movements with extreme examples? Yes. Does the distinction between fairness and exaggeration matter? Yes -- every bit as much...
...forcing it to write off $350 million -- including the allegedly stolen funds and $340 million in overstated profits. The privately held concern has dismissed auditor Coopers & Lybrand, which it blamed for failing to spot the fraud. The accounting firm says Phar-Mor's move was "apparently designed to posture, bluster and transfer blame...