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...Jordan immediately withdrew its ambassador in protest. Nasser's speech cinched the fact-which was already evident-that he will not be getting any more wheat from the U.S. As for his threat to welsh on debt payments, most of his debtors considered it a desperate act of bravado, designed to let his creditors know that he cannot pay them all off -and that he will give first priority to those who bother him least about the delay. The plain fact is that Nasser could not pay even if he wanted to. His country is nearly bankrupt...
Washington whizbang would elect to take the stand. Yet after the prosecution rested its case, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams called Baker as his first witness. Displaying little of the bravado of his less troubled days, Bobby calmly told the jury of sundry influence-peddling deals. But his own role, he maintained, had been little more than that of an errand boy for Kerr...
...avaricious, lecherous self skillfully--and riotously. As one of the minor characters (a captain in the Venetian police) Nick Smith steals a scene with his impersonation of a Brooklyn cop. One shortcoming does stand out amidst the otherwise excellent caricatures: occasionally the young soldier Leone understates the egocentric bravado which should undercut any respect we might have for his heroism...
Electrifying! Breathtaking! Scary! Bravado Bullfighter Manuel Benítez (El Cordobés), was performing again. Had the bulls been good? No, but the hailstorm was terrific, gasped the flamboyant matador as his six-seater Piper Aztec landed at Córdoba airport after passing through gusts at 10,000 ft. "It was awful. I've never been so scared in my life," marveled El Cordobés. A good thing he's been taking flying lessons, Manolo said, because at one point, "a gust hit the plane and the pilot was hurt, and I had to take...
...city of banalizing values in which I grew up, a white amongst ambitious whites--not by others but essentially by myself betrayed--the saving character of a people who have held onto the roots of uniqueness, moral courage, political bravado and intellectual guts provide me today with one solid base to stand on, one place of life worth vitally living, one neighborhood where individual honesty and verbal directness still exist...