Word: bombasting
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...designs. Hanoi reacted to the U.S. action with contrived indignation. Peking waited nearly 24 hours, then declared that the U.S. "has gone over the brink of war" and warned that "the debt of blood incurred by the U.S. to the Vietnamese people must be repaid." Despite this bombast, the Red Chinese made no specific commitment of support to their southern neighbors, and U.S. experts could find no scrutable clues as to whether they might launch a new Korea...
...playing the Merchant with flat-out intensity, Tom Bell, who looks more like Brandon de Wilde than J. P. Morgan, only adds to this bombast. His fixed mannerisms and fierce gesturing wear quickly and prevent the audience from taking his mortal fear of the coolie very seriously...
...PANAMA, all efforts to find a com promise on the revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty failed. On a wave of bombast, Panama sailed into an emergency meeting of the OAS Council, charging the U.S. with "unprovoked attack...
...strength run from a handful to a few score-and so far the cops have no idea who the leaders are. But neither Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage nor the federal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson dismisses the FLQ lightly. For behind the bombs and bombast lie deep-rooted grievances that affect all of French Canada's 5,500,000 citizens. The vast majority of them do not want to be separate. But they do want to be equal...
...also became evident that the four-day shuffle was being manipulated by such highly motivated "pilgrims" as Communist agitators, anarchists, and a few thugs to boot. Last week, after the sixth annual spectacular ended in blisters and bombast in Hyde Park, most responsible Britons-including several C.N.D. co-founders-were more eager to ban the march than the bomb...