Word: blusterous
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...Muscovites are lining up to purchase their copies of Izvestia's interview with President Kennedy. Not because Russian citizens will immediately and clearly (in some Goldwatery, Cartesian manner) perceive the truth of the American cause, but because such interchanges are much preferable to the kind of scary Cold War bluster that has characterized the present world crisis...
...middle class owners of the shelter is painfully obvious; he has made the Hooper family caricatures, and bad ones at that. (One wonders ho he would have sketched a working class shelter owner.) John Walton as Michael Hooper tries manfully to blow life into his dead role by force, bluster, and over-acting; his wife, Frances B. Barbour, faces the same problem with similar results...
Kwame Nkrumah now seemed as much a prisoner of his leftist colleagues as he was of his own Pan African dreams. There was only one way out-more bluster. When word trickled into Accra that Washington was pausing to reconsider its offer of the U.S.'s $133 million Volta River loan. His High Dedication fired off a letter to President Kennedy asking for a decision by Oct. 13. But only irigid silence came out of Washington; hastily, Nkrumah got off a second letter. Take your time, wrote Nkrumah reassuringly last week. Somehow, he had found a way to extend...
Beneath all his bluster, Khrushchev-in his talk with his own people-spoke only vaguely of the possibility that "perhaps subsequently" he would have to move up Soviet troops, and if so, it would "perhaps be necessary to call up a part of the reservists." He sounded almost defensive in justifying his proclaimed need for a unilateral peace treaty with his East Germans. "If we renounced the conclusion of a peace treaty," he said, after having vowed to sign it, Western powers "would regard this as a strategic break-through and would widen the range of their demands at once...
Kennedy warned Gromyko of the gravity of the Laos crisis. U.S. prestige is so deeply committed in Laos, he said, that the crisis could explode into World War III. Gromyko retorted without bluster. He urged that the U.S. halt its military buildup of marines, guerrilla fighters and helicopters in northern Thailand until the Soviets had time to reply to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer. Kennedy did not commit himself. But the fact was that the U.S. buildup in Thailand did slacken during the week...