Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editions' 21st volume, a stirring story of an escape from the Nazis, is the first to be published in liberty, the first to omit the defiant inscription of its predecessors: "Ce volume, publié aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes, a été achevé d'imprimer sous l'oppression a Paris" ("This book, published with the aid of certain patriots of literature, has been printed under the oppression in Paris...
Down Gorky Street. Almost three years behind blitz schedule, the Wehrmacht at last saw Moscow. Some 57,000 German prisoners from the Polish campaign shuffled through the Russian capital on their way to internment. They were shabby, unshaven, a few of them still defiant. But most looked like beaten...
...mutineers were defiant. They had plenty of food: from neutral Bedouins they bought sheep at $20 a head. They had artillery, mortars, tommy guns, armored cars. They waited. Just before midnight of the ultimatum's deadline their outposts heard British troops advancing...
Socialist Greenwood had just lost a fight to expel Nye Bevan from the Party for a revolt against the topside line. He had even threatened to resign if Bevan were upheld. But on the showdown Greenwood had to eat his threat. Defiant Nye Bevan, a onetime Welsh miner and long a loud voice for Labor's militant left, had won a significant victory...
...pain, fell with a stab wound in his back. Angry Tommies beat through the dark village, could not find the assailant. Next day a gang of Italian youths pummeled a tipsy British soldier. Again Tommies rushed to the rescue. Shots rang out, hit some bystanders, dispersed a defiant...