Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oddly, it was Spiro Agnew who seemed to be taking the higher rhetorical road. He accepted his uncontested renomination with a speech he wrote himself that was admirably devoid of bombast and his normal partisan narrowness. To be sure, he attacked McGovern's policies as "piecemeal, inconsistent and illusory" and claimed that the Democratic candidate would "retreat into isolationism, abandon our allies, and concentrate wholly on our internal affairs at the great expense of our national security." Yet he also called for an end to policies that would "divide this nation into partisan blocs, each fighting only...
Scenarist Serling's adaptation of Irving Wallace's novel is full of cheap chatter and the kind of bombast ("We cannot murder tyranny by murdering the tyrant") that even a Washington speechwriter might discard as overly florid. As portrayed by Jones, the hero is certainly fulsome enough to be a major political figure. Joseph Sargent's direction is energetic, consisting in large measure of dogging his actors with a mobile camera as they bolt through endless doorways along the corridors of power. -Jay Cocks
Commencement speeches are often exercises in bombast that run second only to the Senate filibuster. The class of '72 at the University of Alabama received a rare treat this year: a 250-word commencement address, aptly titled "A Few Words," delivered by Dr. Larry T. McGehee, 36, chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Martin...
...time, Nixon said that he would continue to withdraw troops from South Viet Nam, though at a slower rate. In the next two months, 20,000 will go. Nixon also announced that he was resuming the Paris peace talks, "not simply in order to hear more empty propaganda and bombast from the North Vietnamese, but to get on with the constructive business of making peace...
...powerful president of the United Mine Workers of America, would protest with outraged, rolling rhetoric. Last week his successor, W.A. ("Tony") Boyle, stood wordlessly before a Washington federal jury as he was pronounced guilty of embezzlement, conspiracy and illegally contributing to political campaigns. His silence, compared with Lewis' bombast, symbolized the fall of a once powerful union to a scandal-ridden ebb of influence. Boyle's conviction carries a maximum sentence of 32 years in jail and fines...