Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lack of Advice. But if Harry Truman seemed resigned to failure, Secretary of State George Marshall was crisply defiant. Appearing two days later before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he explained exactly what that "necessary action" should be. Said Marshall in plain, undiplomatic language: "It is fundamental . . .to develop a basis of government [in China] not restricted to a small group and to clean up waste and corruption. But even more important, it must give definite, active consideration to the land problems of the peasantry. . . . This is critical from a purely military point of view...
...orchestra did handsomely by Britten's tricky music (the best of his music is written for the orchestra, not for the soloists). But the Met just couldn't break itself of its old habits. Frederick Jagel neither looked nor acted the difficult part of a crude and defiant Suffolk fisherman; he was simply a posturing Wagnerian in a sou'wester. The innkeeper-madam thought the part called for the kind of hand-on-hip coquetry of a road company Carmen...
Manhattan's Communist New Masses, butcher-paper bible of the far left, last week had a birthday-its 37th and its last. Mounting costs had starved it to death; the 1947 deficit was an unmanageable $65,000. In two doleful, defiant pages, the editors wrote the obituary of a Marxist magazine that had first attracted, then repelled, some of the most brilliant writers...
Like other types of mental patients, alcoholics are generally self-centered and defiant. During drinking bouts especially, they develop expansive egos and large ideas, are given to a well-recognized disease known as "telephonitis," i.e., an irresistible itch to make long-distance phone calls, particularly to their psychiatrists (one well-heeled alcoholic of Tiebout's acquaintance runs up phone bills of $400 a month...
Never before had the French Communists appeared so defiant, so malicious, so isolated and so hell-bent for chaos. There was symptomatic violence in the Assembly chamber, and real violence, bloody, ugly and portentous, in the streets...