Word: blusterous
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...presidential ambitions grew, so did Jackson's eagerness to make headlines by launching probes by his Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which sometimes turned out to be mostly ballyhoo and bluster. During an investigation of crime on Wall Street, he was much embarrassed by trumpeting a shady witness's wild charge, backed up by no evidence, that Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Franklin Roosevelt, had plotted the assassination of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling of the Bahamas. Last year he recklessly called executives of the major oil companies before the subcommittee and harshly accused them of jacking up prices...
Screaming Insults. The Lombardi cult has grown, rather than diminished, since he quit as coach seven years ago. So it did not take long for Green Bay to start comparing Devine unfavorably with Lombardi. Shy and softspoken, he lacks the bluster and magnetism of the late leader. Like any coach fresh from a college campus, he arrived on the chilly shores of Lake Michigan with quite a bit to learn about the pro game...
Little Gaint [1933]. An tries to bluster his way into high society in this comedy with Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor...
During Sprague's opening salvo Boyle slouched in his chair in stony silence; all the bluster and bravado that characterized his nine-year reign at the U.M.W. had vanished. At 71, he is gaunt and pallid, suffering from anemia, heart disease and the effects of an attempted suicide seven months ago. He was flown in from a Missouri prison, where he is serving a three-year sentence for illegally contributing union funds to the 1968 presidential campaign...
That could be bluster before the fall, or it could represent Nixon's sincere belief in his innocence of impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors." Depending on what may be in that briefcase, his survival strategy has some practical chance of success. His lawyers are advancing the narrowest possible grounds for impeachment, limited to indictable crimes of "a very serious nature committed in one's governmental capacity...