Word: blusterer
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...bring about order (see FOREIGN NEWS). "With other United Nations members," said Lodge, "we will do whatever may be necessary to prevent the intrusion of any military forces not requested by the United Nations." The firm rejoinder-for the moment, at least -took the steam out of Soviet bluster about unilateral troop lifts...
...revelation that the U-2 has been overflying Russia diminished the effects of Khrushchev's military bluster...
...parliament sat tense and expectant at long rows of neat desks. Diplomats, newsmen, and a delegation from Ghana stared down from packed galleries. At the tribune hunched the familiar, round, shiny-pated figure of Nikita Khrushchev. His voice was strident and bitter. Gone was the bland old bluster about "peace and friendship," as the Soviet boss, in we-will-bury-you language, denounced the U.S. for sending a plane over Russia (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in "an aggressive provocation aimed at wrecking the summit conference...
...Natal's threats were mostly bluster. When the time came, most Natalians and other English-speaking South Africans would accept the republic that the Nationalists almost certainly would force on the nation, referendum...
...officers and 4,548 civil service employees. Though not a career diplomat, he behaves like one. He asks advice of subordinates, is a good listener. "Herter just doesn't see things in the black-and-white terms that Dulles did," says a department policy planner. Faced with Soviet bluster, Dulles was inclined to gather newsmen for an off-record session, gaze at the ceiling, click his tongue and colorfully rebuke Khrushchev. Herter replies with greater speed, and usually with a documented statement that catches the Russians by the specifics. Yet, far from abandoning Dulles' style entirely, Herter...