Word: cockier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day, Peronistas were cockier than ever. At the army's vast Campo de Mayo base, the President and his blonde wife were ostentatiously received by their recent critic, Defense Secretary José Humberto Sosa Molina. In a speech dripping with consideration for Señora Perón, Sosa Molina said: "The significance of her presence among us as a special guest of honor is nothing but a stout denial of rumors that picture the army as opposing...
Reading the national Scoreboard, Stassen was even cockier. When he first arrived in Montpelier last week, he was "reasonably sure" of 200 first-ballot delegates. By the time he left Portland, five days later, he thought he could count on 230 (against Dewey's estimated 350 and Taft's 200 to 250), including 17 of New England's 30 votes. Said Stassen confidently: "I would not change places with any other candidate at the moment." Who did he think was the man to beat? Replied Stassen with a grin: "Mr. Truman...
...through, the order may be slashed to 2,654 planes. If Army & Navy plans go through, the industry can count on Government orders of some $87,000,000 a month for the next 22 months, in addition to civilian orders already on hand. For these reasons planemakers were far cockier about the future than they had expected to be a month...
...TIME'S account described the first week of mass daylight raids in mid-September, when Londoners' reactions showed they were not yet bomb-hardened. They did undoubtedly harden, and they naturally grew cockier when mass daylight raids stopped after the British defense had rung up high daily scores in planes shot down. Far from cocky is the frank recital below of a man whose home...