Word: blusterous
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Here I cease listing facts and state my belief. I believe America can do a great deal. First by remembering that the Indian people, like ourselves, will not be rendered cordial by bluster and blame, especially on the part of the uninformed. Morale will rise of itself in direct proportion to India's conviction of the good faith of those who make promises and propose constitutions. If America and Britain could join in pledging that the Atlantic Charter will be implemented for India, that would help. But our greatest help at the moment, while we are equipping and directing...
...communications channels). But they lifted their eyebrows at one Drum beat that was a little too slick. On the maneuvers' first day, a venturesome Red reconnaissance patrol penetrated Blue lines and captured Hugh Drum as he drove along a highway with only his aide and chauffeur. By bluster and guile the lieutenant general persuaded his captor, a young captain, to turn him loose. Grumped a ranker to the gullible youngster: "You should have taken him to the prison camp." But the fact remained that Hugh Drum, by this and many another dodge that might have been employed against...
...Bluster. He won many skirmishes in the Revolution because he had neither fear nor prudence. When he completed a mission he would come with a delighted grin to his commander and say: "Whom do I strike next?" But he had no understanding of anything beyond action. "Comrade," Lenin once asked him, "Suppose you were asked what you were fighting for, what would you say?" Budenny answered: "Comrade, I would say that Lenin knows...
...been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture." The German Minister, Georg Viktor von Heeren, rushed to the Foreign Office to bluster. Old Dr. Nintchitch gave him exactly six minutes to speak his piece...
...speechifying, conferring, shaking every hand within reach. Senator Vandenberg, though he was backed by most of the regular party leaders, had made it clear that any nomination must come to him "from the deliberative judgment of the American people." The best his campaign managers could think up was to bluster that young Mr. Dewey was pushing and undignified, persuade Mr. Vandenberg to address local rallies from Washington by radio...