Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Down a deserted London street marched bluff old Air Marshal Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard, onetime chief of Scotland Yard. As he reached the corner, a bobby saluted cordially, informed him he had just walked over a time bomb. "Why didn't you stop me?" roared Lord Trenchard. "Oh, we recognized you, sir," replied the policeman...
...heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead. He dropped one bomb to lighten the plane, had no chance to release another. On a desolate peak near Danilovgrad, in neutral Yugoslavia, Ralph Barnes died in action with three...
...recent treaty between Germany, Italy and Japan is the greatest international bluff of all time," he declared. Japan has been deluded into thinking that the others would help her if the United States attacked her, but there is little that they could do if we threatened Japan...
...should recognize the silly bluff for what it is and ignore it," he continued. "Looking at it dispassionately, we can come to one conclusion: The bluff is a confession of fear and weakness, an admission of helpless vulnerability to the things...
That night the President talked international affairs with the big, bluff, grey Earl; again next morning after church...