Word: bombastes
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...took over the union, much of the nation's coal was dug by youngsters, some barely into their teens, who labored in appallingly dirty, unsafe conditions for only a pittance. Lewis was the Paul Bunyan of unionism, standing up to companies, courts and even Presidents with fiery bombast. When Franklin Roosevelt threatened to bring out the U.S. Army to break a U.M.W. strike in 1943, Lewis replied with classic defiance: "They can't dig coal with bayonets...
...beat and forgotten. There's a man on the telephone who's gonna give me $10 million to fight some great white hope who's got Governor Wallace workin' his corner." That vision seemed about as realistic as the rest of Ali's prefight bombast. Then, early last Wednesday morning in Kinshasa, Ali stood proud in the ring over the supine form of George Foreman. As the champion was counted out, Ali's wildest prophecy seemed suddenly, surprisingly plausible...
...Thoreau's flute, Ives explained. The flute's been silent for the first three movements, and the tune comes in slowly and quietly, without preparation or roots, out of the blue. The sonata ends without a resolution. It is as though the old hymns couldn't stand against the bombast of fate knocking on the door. It is as though Ives had admitted that his father's world was gone, and that he had not yet tested newer, more specific radicalisms that might still work in the new world...
...desert island with (barring John Kenneth Galbraith) one of the pretentious hacks and quacks who voted for one another as intellectual elitists in the poll taken by Sociologist Charles Kadushin. What else might be expected when the criterion for determining intellect was publication in the New York Review of Bombast or the Prejudice Review...
...manic bombast and sheer tactlessness, none of the world's leaders can compete with the big mouth of Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that...