Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Church Monthly, Bishop Murray writes. "Good is in the ascendant, and the comparative ratio of increase (of population) is decidedly in its favor. We are living in the best age of human history." Is it by accident that the leaders of our public life are such defiant optimists. Or is it one more indication of why we are so popular in Europe? New Republic...
...instant many a steaming Dutch face grew morose. Then a private, thirsty, petulant, vexed, picked up a chair, hurled it through a window of the beer canteen. Defiant, the men" seized many a bottle, grew pot-valiant, daced to chant the "Internationale...
...first woman executed by order of a German court martial in Belgium for "recruiting" as opposed to "espionage." Within a few months Allied billboards were o'er-plastered with posters showing a brute-faced German officer commanding a phalanx of soldiers to fire upon a youthful, blooming defiant girl in the costume of a Red Cross nurse. The caption: EDITH CAVELL NEXT...
...muzzle-loading cycle of years before lies its romance, its incredible reputation for hardiness and courage: in Mexico under Maximilian 60 men were surrounded by 2,000 Mexicanos. All day the battle surged, five times Mexicans called on the legionnaires to surrender, five times the answer was a defiant hoot. When the relieving party arrived not a legionnaire remained. For ten hours 60 had held 2,000 while the convoy they were escorting had gone on to safety. In Indo-China a force of 390 had beaten off an entire Chinese army 7 times during a 32-day battle. General...
That is why Defiant Doty shrugged his shoulders at the court, received the sentence with, "Well, that's tough." For eight years the handsome legionnaire will sweat at hard labor building roads through Africa, not at all resembling the reckless swashbuckler who once fought for France; unless, perhaps, the Legion feels another little tug from Tennessee...