Word: bluff
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Long Haul. The pipeline, which brings Aramco's oil closer to Western European markets, saves a fleet of 65 tankers by eliminating the ten-day, 3,500-mile haul around the Arabian Peninsula (see map). For its builder, Burt E. Hull, 66, a bluff, weatherbeaten Texan, who has been building pipelines for 40 years, it was the biggest job since he built the wartime Big and Little Inch pipelines. As president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co., Hull now bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard...
...improvised Provisional City Council, appointed during the first days of liberation, was still nominally in office, but the real work of running the city was in the hands of bluff, vigorous U.S. Colonel Charles R. Munske. Colonel Munske makes it clear that he is not in Pyongyang as a military governor. He is commander of a U.S. Civil Assistance Team, which seems to be the title given by the U.S. Army to a military government unit whose existence it doesn't want to admit...
...Bluff. Wasn't he worried that the Russian might be pulling a trick on him? Said Congressman Chatham: "My Russian friend loves America. He wants me to help him get to the U.S., where he would like to settle down on a farm." For four years before Korea, his friend told him, Russia had been pulling the biggest bluff in history. In Korea, the Russian officer said, the U.S.S.R. had lost not only face, but great stores of military equipment which it had hoped to use again in Indo-China and Siam. The Kremlin had also made some very...
...five-man Board of Regents is usually quite a routine affair. Until last week, this year's election promised to be no different. Then, just before the deadline for filing, two new candidates appeared. One was a 21-year-old sophomore named Walter MacKenzie. The other: big, bluff Joe Sheeket-ski, 45, the football coach...
...Coogan's Bluff, 14-year-old Robert Peebles had climbed onto the roof of his dirty yellow apartment house, raised his .45 pistol and fired it, for the fun of it, into the air. His bullet looped swiftly over the Polo Grounds, sped toward Seat 3, Row C, Section 42. Just as Barney Doyle, his score card in hand, turned to speak to young Otto Flaig, the bullet smashed into Doyle's left temple, sank into his brain and stayed there. Doyle, suddenly bleeding, slumped forward...