Word: bluff
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...eating his singular vegetarian meals at a good many of the great English houses." He met Churchill, formed a lifelong friendship, even though Churchill soon was out of political favor. Tizard took a different road. After teaching at Oxford, he turned to science-advising at Whitehall, and with his bluff, soldierly manner "fitted into that world from the start." Lindemann was jealous...
...crowds that are packed with friends and relatives. The games draw less national publicity than the price of cotton raised on nearby farms. But year in and year out, the University of Mississippi plays some of the finest football in the nation. The reason: Coach Johnny Vaught, 52, a bluff, leather-faced perfectionist who has so identified the success of his team with the prestige of the state that Mississippians long ago forgot his Texas origins and now regard him as a native...
...From Bluff to Doom. Author Shirer effectively underlines the incredible myopia of France and England in letting Hitler conthem into accepting one conquest after another until even the Chamberlains in both countries could swallow no more. Shirer shows how the German generals feared that every aggressive move of the Fiihrer's would lead them into a war for which they were not ready-only to realize eventually that the "warlord's" successful bluff made their caution seem ridiculous. The big-lie technique, the phony "threats" to Germany from future victims (Austria, Czechoslovakia. Poland) are documented to the hilt...
...Pine Bluff (pop. 43,000) is a town that has its share of night riders and racism. John D. York was soon fired from the factory job that he had held for twelve years. And as school opening loomed last week, the entire Sunday service at his Galilee Baptist Church was built around Delores. Peering down at the child, the Negro minister intoned: "But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified" (Matthew 27: 23). For three minutes the weeping congregation stood in silent prayer for her safety...
...bitterly segregationist Pine Bluff had learned a lesson from Little Rock, 45 miles away. And lean, responsible Lee Parham, president of the Dollarway school board, had pounded it home. "This is the only thing we can do," said he all over town. "Any violence over it will only hurt us in the future." Even the Citizens' Council agreed. As one Pine Bluffer put it: "It's awful hard to be a brave fighter when your opponent is a six-year-old girl...