Word: blusterous
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...freedom 100 miles beyond the Western frontier. Perhaps, by a sort of creeping blockade, they hoped to choke off Berlin inch by inch, in such a way that the West would have a hard time finding the crucial point to make a stand. At any rate, beneath the bluster, there was a canny control at work too-as if the Russians hoped to achieve the maximum of mischief short...
Most of the noteworthy news events of the past summer had this in common: they lacked the quality of reasonable tolerance which characterizes a liberal education. The polemical breakdown of the Kersong truce talks in-korea, the bluff and bluster that have marked the negations over Iranian oil, the wild demonstrations at the Communist youth festival in Berlin, and the continuing hysteria over "subversive elements" that marks certain elements of public and legislative opinion do not create a good atmosphere for studying...
...troubled Protestant army chaplain, hard-bitten Major Kartuschke's bluster, meant only one thing-another German had chloroformed his conscience. In twelve hours, one of Major Kartuschke's prisoners-21-year-old Lance Corporal Fedor Baranowski-would be shot by a firing squad. Curiosity and compassion impelled the chaplain to find out why. Through a long, anguished night, he wrestled with a stack of court-martial papers...
...kind of talk that Americans approved and understood. Apparently, Communists understood it too. After three days of bluster, the Communists backed down. When the talking began again, Kaesong was truly a neutral city. Reported the U.N. delegates of the new truce discussions: "Some progress was made...
...Asian deserts to the Indian Ocean?" And when British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh opposed a puppet Poland under Russian control, "he was curtly informed that Russia, already in occupation of Poland, possessed an army of 600,000 men." Most familiar of all: "[Castlereagh] knew that the Czar would bluff and bluster from gain to gain so long as he thought that the West was pacific and divided...