Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right to the flyers in the F-14s. It was not to be "a direct provocation," explained one of the architects for the maneuvers. But the U.S. "had placed a chip on its shoulder, and the Libyans could try to knock it off if they wished." Behind this bravado was the simple but passionate belief by Reagan that, at home and abroad, when the structures of civilization are threatened the President must respond quickly and decisively. Freedom of the seas was the principle at stake off Libya's coast and, according to one top Navy man, "we were...
With plenty of bravado but little foresight, the News tried to navigate the shoals that had caused evening papers elsewhere to founder: distribution delays in city traffic snarls and competition from suburban newspapers and local television news. Those hurdles proved insurmountable. Tonight received a huge injection from a $20 million News revitalization fund, but its circulation, headily projected at 300,000, finally slumped to 70,000. The News's profits gave way to a torrent of red ink: even with Tonight folded, the paper expects to lose $11 million this year. Said Publisher Robert Hunt: "We went...
...intimate details of each death, spread eagerly from cell to cell, are well known to all the prisoners. Each time new volunteers are sought, Maze leaders review the awful effects of starvation. They want no false bravado and no dropouts. The prisoners stand silent against the cell-block doors, ears pressed to cracks in the framing, and listen to block commanders speaking in Gaelic to confound the guards, describe the ulcerated throats, the tooth fillings that drop out, the skin that turns so dry that bones break through, the inevitable blindness before death...
Your Essay "Looking Straight at the Bomb" [July 6] reveals the dilemma we face because of "no thought" and the inability of our leaders to dare to spend billions for peace negotiations rather than for armaments and bravado. Mr. Reagan and his circle should remember that pride goeth before a fall...
...otherwise indifferent movies as Silver Streak and Stir Crazy, what may be the current screen's most appealing comic persona. His style may come from the ghetto, but his screen character is an everyman offering a sometimes poignant, but always funny, commentary on male fantasies of knowledgeability and bravado...