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This burst of broad British humor contained a strong tincture of bravado. For though some day he may need shoes to make tracks, Herr Hitler now has wings to make trouble. The German Air Force has driven home this point by taking the lead in speeding up the tempo of war-in-the-air, and at least one Briton spoke plain truth about the opposing air forces last week. Air Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage observed that British and Germans were "only sparring, with each side sizing up the other." One of these days, said he, "cities and industrial centres...
...keep in training by provoking purely private, local brawls, but let a close election loom and they emerge in force to strut around bars, clank their spurs haughtily and utter elegant insults at other candidates' pistoleros. Some pistoleros have strong political ideals. A lot of them get their bravado from tequila...
...found, were rare. A few doomed men balked momentarily at the door of the death chamber, but subsided quickly. Two men shut their eyes through it all. A few acted as though in a trance (he denies that they are ever doped). But the commonest reaction was bravado. Said wisecracking Gangster George Appel: "Well, folks, you'll soon see a baked Appel." Gangster Michael Sclafoni ran his hand over the chair arm. "Dust," he said finically. "They at least, could give a man about to die a clean chair...
...Finns have something they call sisu. It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win. The Finns translate sisu as "the Finnish spirit," but it is a much more gutful word than that...
...Bill's colleagues like his bluster and bravado. But whatever they think of Bill personally, Boston newsmen will admit that he has an immense following. It has been estimated that if Cunningham changed his job it would cost the Post 100,000 readers...