Word: bravado
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...possible that the organization's strength is overestimated. Its secrecy and the bravado of its officials make accurate facts inaccessible; and the unusual circumstances of its acts encourage publicity out of all proportion to their real importance. Its professed policy, of upholding law and order and Anglo-Saxon supremacy in-the face of duly appointed officials, frightens the public into exaggerated alarm, as does all questioning of established authority...
...thousand "Red Shirts" who had conquered Naples 60 years before. Today, uncompromisingly opposed by the Great Powers, rebuffed by the government at Rome, and with his tenure of control of Flume but a matter of weeks at most, the Italian soldier-poet speaks with the same old air of bravado...
...late hour last night the honors stood about even, each outfit having induced one "ringer" and one "leaner" to join the ranks. Stars will abound on all sides, and it is rumored that the river men will uncover their latest plans for breaking the ice. Despite the bravado of the Cabin Boys from the Charles, the odds have been set at 23 to 13, in favor of the custodians of the puck bag. Past performances give them the edge, for although they lack team-work and have no great individual brilliance, they have undoubtedly made it hot for the University...
...expedition from Harvard and Technology has been organized, and will sail from New York next Saturday. It is estimated authoritatively that the members have one chance in three to come back alive. The men who have volunteered have not done so in any spirit of bravado or adventure, but with a full realization of what they will have to face. Another force of a hundred and fifty will be organized, and those who volunteer for it should remember exactly what dangers they are running, and what conditions they will meet...
...start and mild amusement, the native boldness with which you have suggested a *frappe with our hither to unbeaten septette of picked icemen. It is not so much the mild effrontery try and subtle brazenness of this offer which has caused our cynicism, as the air of dauntless bravado with which a spirited journal can afford to ignore a succession of ignoble crushing and yet rise once more, weak and giddy, only to be pushed once more between the ropes...