Word: swaggering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holds, all are probably as diametrically opposed as two groups of people could get. Whether or not militarism is undemocratic and vicious, or the Regular Army officer is blind and reactionary, the West Point Cadet has the faith of a tradition and a pride born of integrity behind that swagger in his walk...
Political Bends. The new Israelis walked with a confident swagger along beach front at Tel Aviv. They talked confidently-indeed, stridently-of a state of ten million, not necessarily confined to the present boundaries of Israel. It was a bad joke, and also a sober observation, that the idea of Drang nach Osten lived in the new nation of Hitler's victims. As they looked around them at a disorganized and unproductive Arab world, Israelis showed some of the reactions of the prewar Germans looking around a disorganized and unproductive Europe...
Enter the Head Man. There was a stir in the back of the hall and Molotov bustled in with his brisk, bobbing swagger. His face was pink with anxiety and his tie (for once) was askew. He snapped his finger to attract the chair's attention, and Bidault wearily said: "The Soviet delegation has an observation to make." A reporter muttered: "Hold your hats, boys, here we go again...
...boss the Boss-shaking her fingers under his nose to demand more funds for a pet project. When the President died, Mrs. Roosevelt sent one of his canes to Mary McLeod Bethune-a carved stick with Franklin Roosevelt's initials on a silver band. Says Mrs. Bethune: "I swagger it sublimely. It gives me strength and courage and nothing to fear...
...maroon collar tabs and swagger stick exchanged for the traditional black morning coat, Sir Stewart is back in the operating theaters and wards of St. George's Hospital. Stored away with King George's decoration is the Nettleship Medal for three years' original experimental work in ophthalmology. This June Sir Stewart will visit San Francisco to receive the Howe Medal, top U.S. decoration for ophthalmology...