Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians cannot get along without them. But the peril is that, as in Iran, a government unable to deliver on its domestic promises will have to live up to its defiant speeches. In Cairo, mobs this week rioted outside the U.S. and British embassies, until police fired, wounding eight. Fury thus turned on would not be so easily turned...
...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, went down last week to seagirt Cornwall, where he often goes sailing. There, in a luncheon speech, Socialist Shawcross made a defiant announcement: Britain has no intention of tossing overboard her small but growing trade with Iron Curtain countries, regardless of what the U.S. Congress says or does...
Squatting hugely across the Potomac from Washington, it is a defiant enclave of non-segregation in segregated Virginia: Negro & white personnel use the same rest rooms and eat in the same dining rooms. Its teeming workers communicate with each other through 2,100 intercoms, 15 miles of pneumatic tubes, and the world's largest private branch telephone exchange. The Pentagon switchboard, Liberty 5-6700, plugs in 40,000 telephones and is growing at the rate of 200 phones a week. Every military man working in Washington (inside the Pentagon and out) is on the exchange. The Defense phone bill...
...crowd. But one among them, a 21-year-old waitress named Mrs. Marilyne Giannattasio, began pushing fiercely toward the hotel. As she came into the lobby the bellhops turned to watch her. "Stacked," was their word for Marilyne. Her dark hair flowed to her shoulders, her lipstick was a defiant red, her earrings jangled. Marilyne did not notice them; after one horrified look she had been moved by a sudden, pitying compulsion to save the figure on the ledge...
...Arias an ultimatum: get out or be booted out. Arnulfo holed up in the presidential palace with his henchmen. Police ringed the palace and began peppering the windows. After a four-hour battle, Arias gave up. As he left the palace under guard, he lifted his hand in a defiant salute...