Word: blusterer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Carolina's demagogic "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, U.S. Senator and self-appointed farmers' friend, met him with bluster: "You're going against the laws of God. My grandfather's cattle had ticks and my father's cattle had ticks. . . ." Long and loud Pitchfork Ben argued for the inalienable right of his cattle to have ticks. John Mohler countered with logic. Said he: "Your grandfather also had rattlesnakes." After untold arsenic baths, the South was free of tick fever...
Their instructors (all men but three) proudly reported that they learned rapidly. Male teachers found that bluster did not work with these pupils, as it did with some men students. One instructor's stock warning to careless and irritable trainees: "Come on now, honey. Let's stay in the cockpit and fly this thing through...
Here I cease listing facts and state my belief. I believe America can do a great deal. First by remembering that the Indian people, like ourselves, will not be rendered cordial by bluster and blame, especially on the part of the uninformed. Morale will rise of itself in direct proportion to India's conviction of the good faith of those who make promises and propose constitutions. If America and Britain could join in pledging that the Atlantic Charter will be implemented for India, that would help. But our greatest help at the moment, while we are equipping and directing...
...communications channels). But they lifted their eyebrows at one Drum beat that was a little too slick. On the maneuvers' first day, a venturesome Red reconnaissance patrol penetrated Blue lines and captured Hugh Drum as he drove along a highway with only his aide and chauffeur. By bluster and guile the lieutenant general persuaded his captor, a young captain, to turn him loose. Grumped a ranker to the gullible youngster: "You should have taken him to the prison camp." But the fact remained that Hugh Drum, by this and many another dodge that might have been employed against...
...Bluster. He won many skirmishes in the Revolution because he had neither fear nor prudence. When he completed a mission he would come with a delighted grin to his commander and say: "Whom do I strike next?" But he had no understanding of anything beyond action. "Comrade," Lenin once asked him, "Suppose you were asked what you were fighting for, what would you say?" Budenny answered: "Comrade, I would say that Lenin knows...