Word: swaggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no trace of swagger in Cozza's voice, only the solemn selfassurance resulting from sixteen consecutive victories spanning almost two complete seasons...
...crime films of the '40s, Bullitt is given a distinct touch of Now by Director Peter Yates. The movie is full of gritty city details and has a streaking pace that would leave Jim Ryun winded. As the beleaguered cop, McQueen is surprisingly subtle, mixing his customary hip swagger with an urban high-strung sensibility; like Oscar in The Odd Couple, he is so tense he has clenched hair...
Blustering God, Stamping across the sky With loud swagger, I fear...
WALKING down a headquarters hall or a ghetto sidewalk, his gait halfway between a lope and a swagger, Tom Reddin looks every inch the Compleat Policeman. If his huge hands, barrel chest and easy Irish smile do not betray his occupation, his glib, salty speech is unmistakably that of the lawman...
Joseph Hooker took charge from Burnside with appropriate swagger-"May God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none"-and quickly gave Lee his most brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, where the Northern army was nearly routed by a force half its size. Federal dead numbered 17,000. In the summer of 1863, Lee prepared his second invasion of the North. George Meade, called in at the last minute to replace the bumbling Hooker, turned back the new thrust with considerable competence at Gettysburg-"General Meade will make no blunder on my front," Lee had correctly predicted...