Word: bluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arkansas Agricultural Mining and Normal College students have been expelled for refusing to obey Arkansas AMN's President Lawrence Davis' request to stop the sit-in demonstrations in the local Pine Bluff chain store...
Tshombe's "scorched earth" threats proved more bluff than anything else. Before they fled, his Katangese troops sabotaged the control board at Union Miniére's Jadotville plant. The company's production was at a total halt. But damage was relatively mild, and the U.N. now had sentries protecting two-thirds of its installations...
Richard Lowenthal, who plays Tony Lumpkin, Mrs. Hardcastle's ne'er-do-well son by a previous marriage, has a riot of a face, and the stupidest-sounding bluff giggle I've ever heard; but he screams his lines, some of them as crucial to the plot as any lines can be to such a plot, and they are lost. Tony's fond mother is not a very interesting or amusing person, so anything Janet Leslie gets out of the part--and she gets quite a bit--is a testament to her skill...
...abruptly took over the Defense portfolio, which now makes him Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defense Minister and Chairman of Commissions for Planning, Atomic Energy and Scientific and Industrial Research. As adviser on military matters, Nehru will probably rely on former Commander in Chief, General K. S. Thimayya, 56, a bluff, hearty, polo-playing officer with unrivaled popularity among the soldiers, who resigned from the Indian army in 1959 because of clashes with Menon. The present army chief of staff, General Pran N. Thapar, 56, is another veteran soldier who served with distinction in World War II campaigns in Burma...
...Giant Manager Alvin Dark. A teetotaling, tithing Louisianan who plays golf in the 70s, onetime Shortstop Dark, 39, sparked the Boston Braves to a pennant in 1948, did the same for the Giants in 1954, when he teamed with the mercurial Eddie Stanky to give Coogan's Bluff the best double-play combination in the National League. A pennant winner in his sophomore year as Giant manager, Dark runs the club with the solicitude of a tenderhearted drill sergeant. He never swears, but his temper is legendary: enraged by a 1-0 loss to the Phillies last year...