Word: blusterous
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...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...
After weeks of bluster and sporadic bloodshed, Algeria's Politburo Chief Ahmed ben Bella last week finally ordered his troops to seize the new nation's rebellious capital...
...lullaby over the Laos settlement, or maybe the Reds were too hungry at home to take on external adventures. At any rate, in his closing speech to the negotiators of the Laos accord, Peking's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi, 61, sounded almost benign. After some standard bluster, the tough veteran of the civil war said: "We have, after all, broken a link in the chain of tension in Southeast Asia, and we should enlarge this breakthrough." Chen even found a reasonably hopeful and almost scrutable Old Chinese Proverb for the occasion: "The strength of a horse is tested...
...Valencia, 53, with an overwhelming 1,643,020 votes. Valencia is a far different politician from the patient, persuasive Lleras. A fiery orator, flowery poet and crack pistol shot, he once stood up to a dictator's besieging troops armed with a .32 revolver, and by bluster and reputation he drove the soldiers away. Anti-Communist and pro-U.S., he puts his faith in the Alliance for Progress and in his own popularity among Colombians. A huge crowd followed him to the polling place in the Bogotá capital. When Valencia had voted, the crowd roared: "Viva Valencia...
...Marx railed against the fears of the West. "Counting on the cowardice and apprehensions of the Western Powers," he wrote in an article about Czar Nicholas I, "he bullies Europe, and pushes his demands as far as possible . . . If, at the outset, [England and France] had proved that bluster and swagger could not impose on them, the Autocrat would have for them a very different feeling from that contempt which must now animate his bosom...