Word: bombastically
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...such an examination. The deans fear that football players and managers may have been scalping their complimentary and preferred football tickets. And it seems a realistic fear. Instead of taking active steps against repetition of these wrongs, however, the dean's office issued a great deal of moralistic bombast, only making it more difficult to get complete information...
Without Eagles. Just why Premier Salazar had decided to dabble in democracy after 25 years' devotion to a corporative state modeled on Italian Fascism, he did not say. In fact, the Premier rarely says anything. Disdaining the dazzle and bombast the eagles and trumpets of the dictating profession. Portugal's Premier, at 64, has outlasted them all. Today he is the dean of totalitarian rulers...
...announcement of the four-bit board cut, Mr. Heaman spoke generously about students voluntarily limiting food and juice portions. In return, students can at least expect cooperation when they legally leave Cambridge for a few days. No drum rolls or bombast is needed. The secret order should rescind itself just as quietly as it came...
...Amid bombast and ill-will, all the more venomous now that Republicans have their mandate, one of the nation's finest Secretaries of State left office last week. Brilliant enough to create profound policies, efficient enough to extract the best from his department, and bold enough to trust the experience, intellect, and judgment that went into foreign affairs during his regime, Dean Acheson is now reaping the sort of chaff great statesmen usually do in insecure times. When all has blown away, we suspect that Americans will appreciate fully the services of a man so well suited...
...newspaper: "No written words could have been better contrived to poison town and gown relations than the... Registrar's viciously biased report and editorial ... on the riot ... It is a tragic pity that the staggering community problem posed by City-University relations could only be met by venom and bombast... The present critical situation has been one that called for... understanding, perception, and maturity. These qualities were conspicuously lacking on both sides...