Word: bluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot talk down the forward thrust of Communist aggression," he told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in Hollywood. "We cannot bluff them down. But we can face them down...
Would Khrushchev really grab the opportunity? Or was it just a matter of helping Makarios bluff the West into supporting the Greek Cypriot stand? The Soviet ambassador in Ankara went out of his way to reassure Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonu. Moscow was well aware of the large peril to peace that would be created by an attempt at destruction of NATO's power balance in that crucial region of the Mediterranean. Neither Turkey nor Greece nor NATO nor the U.S. would sit quietly by to watch a new Cuba being constructed in the lake between Europe...
Barry Goldwater marched through Dixie last week, hitting 14 cities during a four-day, eight-state tour of the Old Confederacy. In Memphis, he drew 30,000 people to the grassy slopes of River Bluff, not far from the Mississippi. In Montgomery, a near-capacity crowd of 24,000 turned out at Cramton Bowl, including 700 white-gowned local belles who lined the field from goalpost to goalpost waving American flags. In New Orleans, the 82,000-seat Sugar Bowl was only one-third filled, but Barry still outdrew the Beatles, who had lured only 12,000 the night before...
Most of these counties, including Marshall and Benton (which adjoins Marshall on its eastern border) lie in the Delta Fringe and Bluff Hills area. This region of Mississippi has a higher proportion of its labor forces in agriculture (59% in 1960) and a lower median family income than any other area of the nation...
Most of these counties, including Marshall and Benton (which adjoins Marshall on its eastern border) lie in the Delta Fringe and Bluff Hills area. This region of Mississippi has a higher proportion of its labor forces in agriculture (59% in 1960) and a lower median family income than any other area of the nation...