Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtually no symptoms at all. Frequently the victim will shrug off the initial signs, even if the pain is quite strong, saying, "It's only indigestion." Some men have been known to do push-ups during an attack just to show they are all right. But such bravado can prove suicidal, because the greatest danger comes in the critical moments immediately after the attack...
...trying to duck the known feelers and gropers without being blamed for the equipment God gave them. It's also rough on the file clerk, trying to keep her arms close to her body while she handles the heavy drawers. Few of these young people can summon the bravado to yell "Cut that out!" or "Go pat your dog!" as this 66-year-old woman has sometimes suggested...
...ranging from drunken despair to crisp reformation to, finally, gentle acquiescence in Bridges' fantasy. But the energy cell powering the whole works is Heard. Recent movies have been full of psychopaths, but this is the definitive statement on that snaky breed. The alternation of charm and rage, of bravado and self-pity-above all the watchful intelligence in the eyes, judging just how far he can go before people revolt against his manipulations-all this marks Heard's as a big but never too broad performance. That somehow one keeps liking him, laughing at him, worrying about...
...three young men clambered down the exit ramp at Damascus airport, holding their pistols high, their V-for-victory signs said it all. It was no empty bravado. They had just pulled off one of the most successful acts of terrorism in recent memory. They had commandeered a Pakistan International Airlines jet with impunity. They had held more than 100 people hostage for 13 days. In an escalating series of ultimatums, they had killed one passenger and threatened to blow up the others. Finally they had hit the jackpot: they won the release of 54 prisoners from Pakistan...
...bravado, the big news last week was what Reagan would...