Word: blusterous
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...Eliot was wont to note, April is the cruellest month, but with yesterday's 42-degree, 35-miles-per-hour bluster, Harvard spokesman Spence Fitzgibbons put it better: "It was a really rude...
Edward Zorinsky, 49, is a Nebraska businessman, an instinctive booster who with bounce and bluster became the Republican mayor of Omaha. Two years ago, seeing an opportunity for greater things, he turned Democrat and captured a seat in the U.S. Senate. He attracted little notice, however, until last month, when it became known that he was undecided about how to vote on the Panama Canal treaties and that a handful of undecided Senators would soon decide the issue. TIME Correspondent Neil Mac Neil reports the consequences...
...Wyke (rhymes with "like," but in this production incorrectly pronounced "wick"), the mystery novelist who invites his wife's lover to his home for a battle of wits Sam Bloomfield has an acceptable British accent and a smooth, resonant voice. But his characterization is superficial--a lot of surface bluster with little going on underneath. He has no spontaneity; the words sound as though he has said them too many times before, and he takes no delight in his own verbal cleverness. It is not a bad performance, but Wyke is a tantalizing character--a child clinging stubbornly...
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...used is Thomson's Island." Headmaster Winegar says some South Boston residents see the Thomson Island program as a form of brainwashing "because their kids go out there and they don't fight." Winegar maintains, however, that much of South Boston's opposition to the center is sheer bluster. "On the surface, the party line is 'we hate the place'" he says, "but their kids are always there...