Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brave people. At Csepel the workers decided to return to work, but only to produce 3,000 bicycles to replace those looted from workers by police and soldiers. At many factories, when a few workers reported, no work was done for lack of power. The coal miners, most defiant of the strikers, cut only enough coal for essential services, and threatened to flood the mines if further coerced. Many miners in the Tatabanya and Pecs areas had taken to the hills and were operating as armed guerrillas. Radio Free Europe monitors in Munich were still taping signals from a rebel...
...wish that he remain in the Yugoslav embassy. First, there is no guarantee that the Soviets will not arrest him when he leaves and, second, what is the use of his taking over when he can't achieve the withdrawal of the Rus sians?" Defiant, but sensible of their lives, some of the workers' councils insisted that they wanted no armed help from the West, which might jeopardize their fight; they were confident they could win alone. The fact is, that for all their tanks, the Communists were bereft of one necessary ingredient of Soviet control, a trustworthy...
...France, the beleaguered Communists tried a desperate show of defiant strength. They ordered their strongest instrument-the Confédération Générate du Travail, whose 1,000,000-plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt...
...Brethren." On the Suez issue he was still defiant. "So long as there is a foreign force, one single foreign soldier in Egypt," said he, "we shall not begin repairing the canal and we shall not begin running the canal. Eden will never force us to surrender. Egypt was made to fight, my brethren, we were made to fight. After ten days of fighting, we are all of us one monolithic people...
...Pipelines. In these defiant words, with their faded Churchillian echoes, Egypt's strongman prepared his people for guerrilla war-and did not add what his words implied: that his army and air force had been badly mauled. The same day, the chief priests of Cairo's famed El Azhar Mosque proclaimed a jihad, or holy war, against Britain and France...