Word: high-flown
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...High-Flown Speeches. Everywhere Rocky went, the shade of Nixon was there to haunt him. So many Nixon supporters turned out for a big dinner at the Hollywood Biltmore that some of Rockefeller's own fans had trouble getting tickets. "Nixon Now" banners and badges bloomed everywhere, and the mere mention of the Vice President's name drew storms of applause. A huge photomural of Dick Nixon's face (flanked by the images of Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln) stared fixedly down at the challenger. Rockefeller's speeches drew respectful attention, but they were not much...
...Baptists and other evangelical sects, says Izvestia, "mislead people with high-flown words, and try to divert them from industrious life, from the enlightened happenings of our great era. They try to disrupt Soviet morality...
...only too right. Challenge is a mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned melodrama. Theoretically, the show deals with a Government scientist (George Nader) studying the limits of human endurance in dangerous situations. Actually, it presents such high-flown nonsense as a story of top-rank researchers sitting out a nuclear war in an atomic submarine and suddenly tumbling to some old problems such as the extraction of oxygen from sea water...
...sort of Leo Gorcey in chaps, has raped and murdered, just for pure meanness, the beautiful Indian "squaw missy" wife of the marshal (Kirk Douglas). The job of avenging his squaw's death is made much more complicated by the fact that Widower Douglas, "a poor fool with high-flown ideas," is also the best friend of Widower Quinn...
...judge by the contraptions on view and the high-flown talk of motivation, it might have been a meeting of circus showmen or of sociologists. Instead, it was the annual meeting of the Super Market Institute, gathered in Atlantic City last week to demonstrate that today's supermarket operators must be both showmen and sociologists to sell their goods. As choosy as shopping housewives, and twice as voluble, the 13,000 delegates wended their way through aisles crowded with 530 displays, talked about changes in the U.S. supermarket...