Word: blustering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...first, Strauss tried to bluster out the storm by calling in the U.S. and British ambassadors to complain at the leak. When that did not work, he grudgingly conceded that he would make no further move on the Spanish project without specific NATO approval-which now may prove hard to get. Even after a stormy 2½-hour session with the West German Parliament's defense committee, Strauss continued to insist that "the logic of our ideas and assessment of strategic necessities cannot be disputed," and West Germans asked in hurt tones how their allies could cherish such unworthy...
...divert armament spending to consumer production for internal political reasons, as one almost pathetically eager to be accepted into the society of legitimate statesmen. When showing off before such Soviet underlings as Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador to the U.S. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, Khrushchev was full of bluster; in his private meetings with Ike he spoke quietly and seemed ready to do business...