Word: blusterous
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...Bluster. The white man's fate in the new black African nations has not been all that bad. Kenya's Mau Mau terrorism stopped at the first signs that independence would be granted, and the brutal slaughters of the Congo are so far the exception in Africa rather than the rule. The initial period of white panic and black exultation is past -a period that saw wholesale departures of colonial civil servants who took their "lumpers" (severance pay) when their jobs were "Africanized," or the thousands of European farmers who pulled up stakes and fled, out of some...
...addition to the SAMs, the Russians have provided a lot of verbal bluster, but total Russian aid to North Viet Nam has been only $365 million (mostly in food-processing plants, electric-power development, mining and chemical equipment). Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Hanoi last February was aimed at re-establishing Russian influence in Southeast Asia, but with the intensification of the war, Russia has lost much of its enthusiasm. Peking is still the big spender, having provided $650 million in economic aid. Though Ho at first responded to the Chinese largesse by mimicking Mao with Orwellian...
...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...