Word: blusterous
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...despite his demands for realism and his caustic description of "the problem," Malcolm began to bluster when he sought answers. Arguing that Negro voting power is responsible for placing the present administration in office, he urged Negroes to apply pressure, forgetting an earlier statement that "politics couldn't solve anything...
...doubt the recent hints from Washington about extending the war in South Vietnam to North Vietnamese territory are just so much bluster, but even so they are ill-advised. They encourage the view that the problems in Vietnam are military, and can be solved by the application of more force, when the entire American experience in Vietnam undercuts this theory. With the most modern equipment and the most professional advisers in the world the South Vietnamese have been losing badly. What is needed is not more helicopters, bu the realization that the United States has bungled seriously in south Vietnam...
...bluff and bluster, Sukarno is determined to "crush Malaysia," which he claims is a "neocolonialist" British puppet state. Along the perilous 900-mile jungle border between Indonesian Borneo and the Malaysian territories of Sarawak and Sabah, British and Malaysian troops have fought a series of bloody clashes with Indonesian "volunteers," who dart back and forth across the frontier sacking military outposts...
...economic confusion, "voluntary" fund drives are confiscatory, wages are falling through the cracks in the floor, and men and women alike are being drafted for forced labor in the fields. But last week on the wooden anniversary of the Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro was still the picture of Communist bluster, and his helpless people still cheered obediently...
Blood on the Wall. Much of Connally's bluster was for show, and rarely was he deeply, genuinely angry. One such occasion was on Pearl Harbor day. Riding home from a White House meeting on the night of Dec. 7, he was in tears of rage as he told a newsman: "That goddamned Frank Knox, that idiot, that fool. He told us only a week ago that the Navy was ready for anything. Now it's lying at the bottom of Pearl Harbor." As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as an admirer of Woodrow Wilson...