Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year. He put Scheherazade in the petroleum business and oiled the wheels of chaos. His acid tears dissolved one of the remaining pillars of a once great empire. In his plaintive, singsong voice he gabbled a defiant challenge that sprang out of a hatred and envy almost incomprehensible to the West...
...huge, 97-man football squad. "What of it?" Byrd growled. Basketball Coach Clair Bee, now acting president of Long Island University and a particular target of Judge Streit's indictment, defended the "tradition" of subsidization and declared: "I would do it the same way again." Said defiant Clair Bee: the "present mess is one of individuals and not the result of policy...
...years Memorial Hall has towered over the University scene. It has taken many insults and never talked back. But the four gargoyles on the tower give an answer eloquently enough. Facing in each direction, they stick out their tongues in a defiant answer to all critics...
...emeritus professor of Columbia University's Teachers College, whose left-of-cen-ter textbooks have long been stirring a storm in U.S. public schools. No sooner had Rugg appeared than-two Ohio newspapers sounded the alarm. "Marxian doctrinaire," cried the Ohio State Journal. The Columbus Dispatch echoed: "A defiant and unabashed radical." The newspapers needled Ohio Governor Frank Lausche into requesting a trustee investigation of the charges, and in short order the trustees issued their edict...
...Defiant Pennant. In 1946 Henry Gurney was appointed to the ticklish post of Chief Secretary to the embattled British mandatory government of Palestine. He called for martial law, and applied the stringent methods he had learned in the jungle to Irgun's terrorists. Then in 1948, British High Commissioner Sir Edward Gent died in an airplane crash on his way home to London to report on the rising Red menace in the jungles of Malaya. Sir Henry Gurney was ordered to Malaya. In London, the Opposition questioned his fitness for the job (he had never been to Malaya...