Word: blustering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bluster ruffled Greyhound's top staffers. Discontent grew when Greyhound profits dipped from $13.9 million in 1956 to $13.4 million last year. When Greyhound lost more than $1,000,000 in this year's first quarter, executives publicly blamed glum weather, privately pointed to the Genet administration. Few of Genet's ideas had generated cash. He unleashed Greyhound's first broad public-relations drive, plugging the theme that bus riding can be classy and comfortable. The campaign cost millions, but, grumbled Vice President Adam P. Sledz, "it produced nothing of a tangible nature." Genet...
...propping up the legitimate government of Lebanon had been achieved-and without gunfire. The West's thrust into the Middle East had temporarily jolted even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into comparative sobriety. The Russians had responded to the West's show of force with mere bluster-a fact that in time may sink into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what...
...feet. Twenty-one months ago, only the intervention of the U.S. saved him from being turned out of power by the invading Franco-British-Israeli forces. His proud army, his vaunted Soviet equipment, lay in dismal ruin. Only after measuring the U.S. reaction did the Russians begin to bluster. The U.S. saved his neck, but Nasser credited Moscow, and soon began boasting of the Egyptian "victory" at Port Said, where the British had routed his forces...
...play need not be so dour and melodramatic as Director Michael Kirby makes it. He has almost all of his characters bluster at each other from the moment the show begins. There are many scenes in which he rides roughshod over the poetry of the script. The small insights into character are one of Garcia Lorca's main assets as poet and play-wright, and by throwing them away he hamstrings the whole production. A bit of humor as well as more understanding and less frenetic acting would give the play vastly more verisimilitude, and in consequence make the tragedy...
...Last Word: Groucho Marx collided with CBS's witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence...