Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speakers loudly condemned Resident General Pierre Boyer de la Tour, who had summarily deported the Tunisian leader of the diehard Prèsence Franéaise for his defiant utterances. Cried Dr. Georges Causse, head of the Moroccan Présence Française: "Tunisia is being sold out by a gang of rascals and traitors ... If France abandons us, the love we have for her will turn to hatred. We will fight by all means in our power, and we will come out into the streets even if it means being killed." Down From The Hills. Impatient Arab nationalists...
...with the Ash Can. With its defiant 1908 show, staged in protest against the academic National Academy of Design, Henri's "Ash Can School"* blew the lid off New York's art world. Critics were horrified, but Manhattanites turned up at the rate of 300 an hour to see paintings of such "unartistic" subjects as dance halls and crowded city streets...
Something for Nothing. As the transports headed south for Formosa, the silence of death fell over the Tachens. Nationalist flags flickered in the cold wind, carefully booby-trapped for the unwary Communist. Over the empty doorways were defiant legends, promising to return. Rice bowls stood unwashed on the kitchen tables. Thousands of rats emerged and scampered through the smoking ruins. Admiral Pride radioed Washington: "Nothing was left on the Tachens or surrounding islands that is of any use, including tin cans...
Last week, when the SEATO treaty came up before the U.S. Senate, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley declared that the Asian signatories† "have uttered a cry of faith in their own destiny, and a defiant proclamation of their own conviction in the eternal worth of the individual man." But North Dakota's Bill Langer cried: "If such a treaty had been in force among the nations of Europe at the time of the Revolutionary War, the U.S. would still belong to Great Britain." This seemed to prove that everybody except Langer has learned some lessons from George...
...defiant attitude has also brought political repercussions, culminating in his recent tangle with Senator McCarthy. When Lamont refused to answer him during one hearing last winter the Senator fired a new kind of question at him--it was in Russian. This antagonized Lamont; instead of replying to McCarthy, he read him a prepared statement challenging his authority as a Senator to challenge...