Word: bravado
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...competing for the same liberal constituency; and she has neither financial nor organizational resources to make a serious fight. Chisholm has no illusions; there is already talk of the No. 2 spot on the ticket, or of perhaps even mayor of New York City in 1973. Whatever happens, her bravado is impressive. "Thirty-six or more persons have been President of these United States," she said last week. "Experientially and educationally, I am better than all, excepting six or seven. I have a near genius IQ-close to 160. I am a very brilliant-minded woman...
Beatty's nervous, sardonic energy gives $ some much needed momentum and at least a modicum of charm. As the hooker, Goldie Hawn displays her familiar Laugh-In mannerisms with witless bravado. She is suffering from a terminal case of the cutes...
...Bravado forms the essence of the spirit of Harvard's soccer team, and "this bravado is dangerous" Woods admits, "but gorgeous. Individual bravado infiltrates the ranks and turns into team bravado. Functioning as a team is a very good experience. We are a group of good friends, and we have had some beautiful moments that have never been equalled in soccer...
Psyche, Woods believes, will be an important factor in the Miami game against Howard University. "We will win if we measure up to the feeling that we are the best. We have got to have that vision. If we get our bravado up, we will win," he said...
...sounded like a new form of Chinese torture: having an appendectomy under local anaesthetic, then getting pierced with needles. While on a tour through Communist China, New York Times Columnist and Vice President James Reston, 61, was flattened with appendicitis. He permitted local surgeons to operate, then with journalistic bravado let them try to relieve the pain by acupuncture-an ancient method of rerouting the forces of yin and yang by sticking needles into parts of an ailing anatomy, but not necessarily near the site of the operation. At week's end, Reston was reported to be recovering nicely...