Word: bumptiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facing widowhood and the birth of another child, capably brings off several scenes of throat-filling pathos. Helping her along is the family -here presented as a gallery of bloodless tintypes except for Aline MacMahon, repeating her stage portrayal of Aunt Hannah, and Pat Hingle as Jay's bumptious undertaker brother, whose hands reek of formaldehyde. Finally, Mamma tells Rufus that his father isn't really gone, after all, because, well . . . feel the baby...
...bogus bwana who writes reams about his African adventures but has actually never been anywhere wilder than the Museum of Natural History. Drafted by the CIA, he is sent to the Congo to recover a moon capsule that went slightly off course. The Russians send Anita Ekberg, a bumptious intelligence agent, to waylay him. "If you are captured," Hope is instructed, "take a cyanide capsule. Death is instantaneous and clean." Hope gulps: "You mean, no side effects...
...from Brooklyn. In desperation the Packers turned to Vince Lombardi. a bristling, brooding bear of a man who was supposed to know football but had never held a major head coaching job before. He seemed hardly the type to coach in a bumptious, boisterous north woods town. He was a city man. an Easterner born and bred in Brooklyn and fiercely proud of it. Until he was 20, Vincent Thomas Lombardi had never even been west of the Hudson...
...Could Always Tell A Yale Man, once upon a time. You might not Approve, to be sure, but you certainly could always Tell. Frisky. Groomed. Bumptious. Friendly. Sleek. The flinty granite of the East, the knotted pine of the far-flung Reaches, and the lumpish topsoil of the Midwest all gentled and traveled by four years of mellow College life. Yes, that was the Yalie all right. As far from a top hat as a Hottentot, but withal, a man to remember, to conjure up, to savor-to be reckoned with...
...protectorate's pint-sized potentates into a federation. After some kicking and screaming, eleven of the 23 sheikdoms joined up. Next, the British moved to merge Aden Colony with the protectorate to offset the independence agitation. Chief agitator: the city's Trades Union Congress, led by a bumptious, Redlining young airline clerk named Abdullah Asnag, whose slogan runs, "One People, One Yemen, God Is Great...