Word: blusterer
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...Tommy John is 6-5 and 2.43. But even that does not explain why a ball club with a team batting average of .239 is way out in front of the American League. "Alertness, enthusiasm and confidence" is Stanky's explanation-which translates into hustle, bustle and bluster and sums up the White Sox manager as well as his team...
Jerusalem, though, is another matter. No U.N. resolution or Arab bluster is likely to shake Israeli determination to stay in the Old City. Some religious leaders have already begun to lobby for the erection of a Third Temple (see RELIGION), although the Israelis have also offered to permit a commission of Moslems and Christians to administer the holy places of each religion. They have promised freedom of access to all shrines in a Jerusalem entirely under Israeli control...
...timing was contrived. The news flashed from Peking within an hour after the U.N. General Assembly convened. For all Peking's bluster, however, the Chinese are obviously too far removed from the Middle East to interfere. Since they set off their first A-bomb on Oct. 16, 1964, they have been unable to gain any diplomatic leverage from their nuclear capacity. The U.S. has been expecting the Chinese to go H ever since last fall. American experts detected traces of enriched uranium in the fallout of China's third and fifth A-bomb explosions-clues that...
...Snootral" Position. Despite a subsequent barrage of Russian bluster against the Israeli "aggressors," that early-morning understanding between the two powers held up through the week. It was further cemented by the exchange of at least a dozen other messages on the hot line, and it underscored a noteworthy point. Though the Israelis and Arabs were able to launch a small but ferocious war on their own turf, the key to a big war remained in the hands of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Given prudence and restraint on both sides, the key will not be turned...
...Middle East has undergone so many Arab-Israeli alarums since Israel became a state 19 years ago that even the antagonists often find it difficult to take one another seriously. They huff and they puff, they bluster and threaten, they move troops around like toy soldiers, but-with the single tragic exception of the war over Suez in 1956 -their bravado has rarely amounted to more than local skirmishes. Last week the area once more seemed on the brink of disaster-and this time the huffing and puffing was more serious. In the closest that Israel and the Arab countries...