Word: blusterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time he does not hold all of the chips. The Argentine application for credit at the Chase National Bank in New York shows that under all the bluster, Buenos Aires must use American credits to finance its steel and bullets economy. Coupled with the loan request came a demand for greater American meat imports. The loan should be turned down, the meat imports curtailed beyond the present quota. Neither Kansas farmers nor Polish peasants (who will never get Argentine beef, spoiling while the Strong Man haggles over price) will object to these measures. To give these measures scope...
...Claghorn bluster, Delmar gets $300 a week. He does other radio chores, and would like to play a Greek character, since his grandfather (aide-de-camp to Lord Kitchener in World War I) was a Greek with the rhythmic name Zaccharios Felaxithees Efstradtiadis...
...turn to blush and bluster. At 9:34 Sunday evening U.P. teletypers flashed: WASHINGTON: JAPAN ACCEPTS SURRENDER TERMS OF ALLIES...
Guns & Grass. Was this an irrevocable decision or tactical bluster? Apparently the reported unofficial Japanese drive for a negotiated peace, launched about two months ago, had stalled against U.S. insistence on unconditional surrender. Apparently the militarist rulers of Japan, though they might be willing to part with most of their conquests in Asia, would not accept a surrender that meant their end. Apparently Premier Suzuki's words spelled out their determination to gird the nation for a hara-kiri resistance...
...Dalio delivers a masterful few minutes as Clemenceau. Thomas Mitchell plays Joe Tumulty, the fighting Irish politician, in the warm-hearted way that won him an Academy Award. Professor Holmes, one of the President's life-long friends, comes to life with subtle, inconspicuous appeal in Charles Coburn. In bluster and oratory, Thurston Hall enacts the political boss, Big Ed Jones...