Word: blusters
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...divert armament spending to consumer production for internal political reasons, as one almost pathetically eager to be accepted into the society of legitimate statesmen. When showing off before such Soviet underlings as Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador to the U.S. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, Khrushchev was full of bluster; in his private meetings with Ike he spoke quietly and seemed ready to do business...