Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who have seen the defeat of the spirit caused by illiteracy among immigrants or our pitifully defiant Armed Forces illiterates have hailed Richards' work on human grounds alone. But any suspicion of his activities as fuzzy intellectualism was banished during the war when jutting-jawed, pragmatic military men beat a path to his Peabody House office, asking for aid. In one ease Richards and a small staff, in a whirl of activity, taught 1000 Chinese naval officers enough Basic English to operate a ship-in six weeks. Here he also made films with Disney for use in Armed Forces...
...Yenan, defiant Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung called for unlimited guerrilla warfare from hundreds of Red village bases. In Manchuria, Communist Li Lisan, who had opposed Mao in internal Communist politics 20 years ago (TIME, Sept. 9; Sept. 23), was urging a separate, Soviet-backed state...
...indescribable thrill of watching more than three hundred delegates from thirty-eight countries gather at the Congress; of awaking one morning to find Moslems bowed down toward Mecca on the lawn outside; of brushing past kilted Scots in the packed dining hall; of looking on while Yugoslavs chanted defiant Partisan songs and would slowly about in their locked-step snake dance...
Cleveland had rarely seen such concerted concern for the uplift of its soul. Evangelists cried out on street corners; windrows of leaflets clogged the city's gutters. Defiant placards atop caravans of clanking autos proclaimed the doom of Satan...
...year the Turks have lived, uneasy but defiant, under a Soviet threat. This week they moved a long way toward the democratic nations. They did not ask the West for help, nor did they send another tart note to Russia; they simply held an election-their first really free...