Word: blusterous
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...turn to blush and bluster. At 9:34 Sunday evening U.P. teletypers flashed: WASHINGTON: JAPAN ACCEPTS SURRENDER TERMS OF ALLIES...
Guns & Grass. Was this an irrevocable decision or tactical bluster? Apparently the reported unofficial Japanese drive for a negotiated peace, launched about two months ago, had stalled against U.S. insistence on unconditional surrender. Apparently the militarist rulers of Japan, though they might be willing to part with most of their conquests in Asia, would not accept a surrender that meant their end. Apparently Premier Suzuki's words spelled out their determination to gird the nation for a hara-kiri resistance...
...Dalio delivers a masterful few minutes as Clemenceau. Thomas Mitchell plays Joe Tumulty, the fighting Irish politician, in the warm-hearted way that won him an Academy Award. Professor Holmes, one of the President's life-long friends, comes to life with subtle, inconspicuous appeal in Charles Coburn. In bluster and oratory, Thurston Hall enacts the political boss, Big Ed Jones...
South Carolina's demagogic "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, U.S. Senator and self-appointed farmers' friend, met him with bluster: "You're going against the laws of God. My grandfather's cattle had ticks and my father's cattle had ticks. . . ." Long and loud Pitchfork Ben argued for the inalienable right of his cattle to have ticks. John Mohler countered with logic. Said he: "Your grandfather also had rattlesnakes." After untold arsenic baths, the South was free of tick fever...
Their instructors (all men but three) proudly reported that they learned rapidly. Male teachers found that bluster did not work with these pupils, as it did with some men students. One instructor's stock warning to careless and irritable trainees: "Come on now, honey. Let's stay in the cockpit and fly this thing through...