Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble seemed to come fast. On the first play from scrimmage, a Notre Dame fumble put Navy in scoring position on the 15-yd. line. With its back to the wall and playing "For Coach," Notre Dame's defenders growled their defiant "Yaaaahhrrr" and took the ball away on downs. Then it began, the famed Notre Dame treatment that has been likened to facing Joe Louis in the ring: a series of rocking left-and-right crunches followed by a knockout. The heavy and hard-charging Notre Dame line seemed to move as one man while Halfbacks Lattner...
...took stock of its reactor assets. It was not destitute. One of the atomic weapons that it had been developing was the nuclear-powered submarine, and at the head of this program was an extraordinary Navy officer, Rear Admiral Hyman George Rickover, 53, who had pushed it ahead with defiant tenacity and almost at the cost of his Navy career...
Countermove. The courageous defiance by the P.W.s was a catastrophic blow to Communist prestige. The immensity of that blow could be measured in the reaction of the Indians on the scene, dumfounded at the discovery that prisoners might be defiant to the death against Communists and not simply (as they thought) coerced by Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Mark Clark...
...Lost Patience." The Western protests found Israel defiant and uriapologetic. Extras reporting the Kibya massacre were soon sold out. "When I heard the news, my heart swelled with pride," said one Israeli. In the Mosaic tradition of an eye for an eye, the Israelis produced statistics to show that since May 1950, 421 Israelis had been killed or wounded by Jordan marauders. Just that week, a cowherd had been murdered, a mother and her children blown to bits. The Israeli U.N. delegation commented that it wished the Big Three "would show the same compunction about Israeli dead...
Spiers was still defiant: "Every penny we had has gone into this fight." Out of work now and ailing, he was keeping his family on $10.50 a week. "I shall stand by my rights. I am an Englishman and I fought for my country . . ." Mrs. Spiers was with him to the bitter end. "I'll take Eva back to school," she said, "in slacks. Then it is up to the police...