Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers of Mexico's Big Three shook their heads sadly. The words were still defiant, but the fire had gone out of them...
...monument on which he had laid his flowers bore the names of Los Niños Héroes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...
...these defiant trumpet blasts he had established himself firmly as the champion of the people against what he loved to call the "banker-dominated railroads." The Department of Justice, blessing his efforts, had asked the Supreme Court to take away the Pullman Co. from 35 railroads which wanted to operate it, and turn it over to Bob Young...
FOLDED, JUST AS IMPUDENT AS YOU PLEASE. THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT HIS ATTITUDE THAT JUST GOT ME. . . . "I WASN'T MAD, OR ANYTHING-JUST DEFIANT. I THOUGHT TO MYSELF...
...C.I.O.'s three biggest bosses -the Steelworkers' Phil Murray, Auto Workers' Walter Reuther and Electrical Workers' Albert Fitzgerald-met in Pittsburgh last week to set a common bargaining policy, they exuded sweet reasonableness. Only a year ago, all three of them had gone out on defiant strike. Now the theme in Big Labor was peace-at almost any price...