Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration was against the dairy and grain subsidy increases. But representatives from Midwestern farm states were defiant, partly because the White House had earlier agreed to maintain subsidies on sugar, peanuts and tobacco as a way of gaining Southern Democratic votes for its economic package. In fact, resentment over those deals led to a breakdown of the traditional backscratching among Southern and Midwestern Representatives. After winning their grain and dairy supports, most Midwesterners joined other Congressmen to defeat a package of sugar and peanut programs that had been passed by the Senate. Caught between principles and promises, the Administration stood...
...other people have been so obsessed with immortality as the Egyptians: none have sought to capture time so persistently -at times with defiant boldness, at times passively; now relying on endurance rather than the grand assault, now raising tremendous edifices to faith in the future. In his own way Sadat has moved toward the age-old Egyptian dream of immortality; peace will be his pyramid...
...federal employees who direct the nation's air traffic?veered wildly off course. It flew into a rage against its employer, launching an illegal federal strike. An angry Ronald Reagan, revving up the full jumbo-jet power of the U.S. Government, deliberately bore down on the defiant union. The result was inevitable: the controllers crashed, the U.S. kept flying...
Refusing to take an alternate route, the defiant drivers left their vehicles in the street. About three dozen police reinforcements and several antiriot trucks arrived to cordon off the forbidden zone. The resulting traffic jam blocked one of the capital's busiest intersections and set the scene for a two-day standoff that turned into the largest political rally since the country's unprecedented liberalization process began last summer...
...South, came out, as a truck driver once told me, "singing the pants off songs," but still, he came out of the South. If the furthest south you tend to get is D.C., then Elvis might not make a lot of sense, except as some sort of defiant yahoo, some blazing anachronism. After all, by the time most of us got to him, he looked pretty silly in those white jump suits with the high collars, and that plasticene pompadour. He was singing in Vegas then--our most improbable city--or out in Honolulu, doing "Heartbreak Hotel" with a three...