Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inseparable Connection. One by one, National Committee members accused of Dixiecrat activities marched before the credentials committee. Some pleaded that it was all a mistake-deep down inside they had been for Truman all along. Others were truculently defiant. After hearing them out, the credentials committee unanimously recommended the purging of five Southerners. The committee briskly voted approval. It was the first such expulsion since...
...With a defiant "hands off!" meanwhile, the Yugoslav government kept up the furious pace of its propaganda war with the Kremlin. Blared Tito's Foreign Office last week: "Yugoslavia's people and its government will not allow anyone whomsoever to interfere in their internal affairs." As to the 31 Russian nationals who, Moscow said, had been treated "inhumanly" in Yugoslav prisons, they were all "spies, saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries...
When the town ignored them, they dragged nail kegs to the spot where the bench had originally reposed, and perched on them like defiant octopuses clinging to piling. The chief of police threatened to confiscate the nail kegs. That was more than the old men could take. They demanded, and finally got, a special municipal election to decide whether the bench should be restored...
...more than two hours the officers bickered. Then Barrios announced that a junta had been formed and sent two tanks to the National Palace to demand Arevalo's surrender. The President's defiant answer: "My term is six years. I will serve not one minute less and not one minute more...
...churches last Sunday Czech priests read a defiant resolution, proclaiming their loyalty to Archbishop Beran and Pius XII. "We are certain," the resolution declared, "that all conscientious and faithful Catholics agree with us and that they would so testify if they were given the opportunity of free speech...