Word: blusterous
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...over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the first press conference of his premiership. Looking relaxed and chipper, and sporting a glistening gold peace-dove emblem in his lapel, the Soviet boss told 250 reporters in the wood-paneled oval room of the Kremlin's Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government had just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other...
...tumult and shouting in the Formosa Strait last week, two facts came clear. One was that the U.S. and Nationalist China could not assure the supply of beleaguered Quemoy without massive ae rial bombardment of Red artillery positions on the Chinese mainland. The other was that, for all their bluster, the Chinese Communists could not hope to capture Quemoy by direct assault in the teeth of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...bluster ruffled Greyhound's top staffers. Discontent grew when Greyhound profits dipped from $13.9 million in 1956 to $13.4 million last year. When Greyhound lost more than $1,000,000 in this year's first quarter, executives publicly blamed glum weather, privately pointed to the Genet administration. Few of Genet's ideas had generated cash. He unleashed Greyhound's first broad public-relations drive, plugging the theme that bus riding can be classy and comfortable. The campaign cost millions, but, grumbled Vice President Adam P. Sledz, "it produced nothing of a tangible nature." Genet...
...propping up the legitimate government of Lebanon had been achieved-and without gunfire. The West's thrust into the Middle East had temporarily jolted even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into comparative sobriety. The Russians had responded to the West's show of force with mere bluster-a fact that in time may sink into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what...
...feet. Twenty-one months ago, only the intervention of the U.S. saved him from being turned out of power by the invading Franco-British-Israeli forces. His proud army, his vaunted Soviet equipment, lay in dismal ruin. Only after measuring the U.S. reaction did the Russians begin to bluster. The U.S. saved his neck, but Nasser credited Moscow, and soon began boasting of the Egyptian "victory" at Port Said, where the British had routed his forces...