Word: bumptiousness
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High Fences. Humphrey came to Washington in 1949 as one of the most bumptious, uncompromising young New Dealers ever to set foot on the Senate floor. He had just helped drive two Southern states from the Democratic National Convention by his absolute insistence on an all-out civil-rights plank. Mere mention of his name was enough to set Southern Democrats to gnashing their teeth...
First volunteer to step up from the audience was Indonesia's Premier Sastroamidjojo, currently Nehru's favorite Asian friend because Indonesia was the only nation at the Colombo meeting last April to agree that the tired old wolf, Colonialism, was more terrifying than the bumptious new tiger, Communism...
Lord Cardigan "was transported with fury. It was his impression that Nolan had been trying to take command of the Brigade," and throughout the remainder of the charge, Lord Cardigan thought about nothing but the punishment that he would order for this bumptious officer...
Married. Martha Raye, 37, bumptious TV comedienne (Martha Raye Show); and Edward Thomas Begley, 30, a dancer on her TV program; he for the first time, she for the fifth; in a civil ceremony; in Arlington...
...closemouthed about his personal life. The only child of the Generalissimo's first marriage, he was a bumptious youth who was jailed in Shanghai by the British when he was 15 for fomenting a student strike. Soon after, he told his father he wanted to go to Moscow, "to learn more about revolutionary ideas...