Word: blustering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Risks." To back up Lo's bluster, Red China passed the word that its 200 million-man (and woman) militia had gone into serious training. The mainland press reported shrilly that units on the Yunnan border were engaged in intensive bayonet and machine-gun drill; men and women in blue boiler suits marched briskly through Peking streets with rifles slung...
...Subjunctive. Yet beneath the bluster there were signs that the Reds were running scared. Ho couched his demands in a clever, diplomatic subjunctive that could easily allow him to make withdrawal of U.S. forces an end -rather than a precondition-to negotiations. Did this suggest that the Communists were finally wincing under the increased application of U.S. air power both north and south of the 17th parallel...
Junkers & Jews. "Iron and blood" were his watchwords, but Bismarck just as often won his way by using bribery and bluster. Early in his expansionist program, France or even Italy could have stopped him from grabbing the other German states and trampling Austria. Bismarck scared off Napoleon III by threatening general war; that was mostly bluff, but the appeasing Napoleon was so racked with pain from bladder troubles that he scarcely knew what was going on. The Chancellor then bought off Italy's vain Victor Emmanuel by giving him the Order of the Black Eagle and promising...
Civilizing Law. Despite their bluster, says MacBride, most governments criticized by the commission are willing to discuss its complaints or to admit its investigating teams to probe alleged injustice. Sometimes, as in the case of last year's Panama riots, the commission does not even have to file a complaint. It is invited to make an impartial assessment, and it does. Called in by Panama, a three-man team, consisting of a Dutch law professor, a Swedish judge and a leading Indian lawyer, stunned its host by finding in favor of the U.S. (TIME, June...
...November winds began to bluster off the Hudson, Ben Joe Hawkes just stood in bed, cutting law-school classes and thinking of North Carolina in the morning. Thus begins what the reader fears will be just another could-he-or-couldn't-he-go-home-again book. And it is, save for a couple of differences. For one, First Novelist Anne Tyler, 22, approaches commonplaces with uncommon empathy, insight and wit; and for another, her protagonist has to address himself to an additional puzzle. The chill on Manhattan's Morningside Heights is nothing compared with that...