Word: swaggering
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...they have scarcely been able to detect the wall. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall recently put the dilemma in concrete terms: "Treasury Secretary George Shultz asserted that we would have to crank up a 'crash plan' to develop our own resources to 'cool the swagger of the Arab nations.' Yet it is we who are the swaggerers-and the energy pigs as well. We are consuming nearly one-third of the world's petroleum even though we have only a dwindling 9% of the world's oil reserves. This is the situation...
Connors was molded straight, all American. Stockton was never as readable. He was usually sullen-faced, as if nursing some hatred or hurt inside. He didn't swagger when he walked like the others, or hang about in packs looking for Action. At tournament dances he would stand quietly with his hands in his pockets and watch the band. He'd answer congratulations with gruff monosyllabics and then avert his eyes. But his growl wasn't hostile, neither was it shy. His slowness to make friends came out of something deeper. He acted like someone angry inside, all the time...
...Taming of the Shrew. Burton and Taylor in happier, if fatter, times. Franco Zefferelli directed this lush adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy, and the transition from stage to screen is a ribald, rousing success. The still beautiful Taylor and the seething, brutal Burton swagger through the film with consummate ease, and one suspects this is because they have played the same roles for real. Channel...
...size and swagger of the anniversary celebrations have been questioned by some thoughtful Jews both inside and outside Israel. For one thing, the expense (an estimated $10,000,000) constitutes another fiscal burden to be borne by Israeli citizens, who already pay the highest income taxes in the world (62% on amounts over $10,000). The demurrers also feel that the spectacular party will be an unnecessary flaunting of Israel's military might at a time when a slightly lower profile might encourage and hearten its friends abroad...
...long ago, young hot-shots in the garment industry would swagger to the top with order pads in one hand and samples of the latest fashions in the other. But nowadays life along Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, main drag of the U.S. dressmaking industry, is a bit more subdued. Three years after the ill-starred "midi" provoked a customer rebellion that unstitched profits in firm after firm, many women are still shying away from dresses and skirts of any sort, and playing it safe fashionwise by choosing pantsuits. Result: a New York dressmaking disaster...