Word: defiant
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Presidential Contender Walter Mondale, the grand acquisitor of political endorsements, publicly spurns his most passionate devotees. Across this land some 10 million cigar smokers yearn for a front-page picture of Mondale, the only dedicated cigar smoker among the Democratic contenders, with his Punch panatela at a defiant angle. Or maybe 30 seconds on Tom Brokaw's news, showing a sweet cloud of Partagas No. 1 smoke carrying off the burdens of another campaign...
Alfonsin resents being asked to pay a debt that piled up primarily during nearly eight years of despotic military rule. His defiant stance is immensely popular with the Argentine public. Buenos Aires newspapers last week were sporting such headlines as ENOUGH OF YANKEE MONEYLENDERS and GRINSPUN FACED UP TO THE BANKS. The debt negotiations were the talk of the town. Cab drivers asked their passengers, "What do you think the banks will...
...Silver's eminently successful strategy. To say that Harvard is merely the backdrop for Death of a Harvard Freshman wouldn't be quite fair; most of the plot elements are uniquely Harvard, from the Nietzsche course which sends one student over the brink to the rivalry between Lauren, defiant product of the New Jersey public school system, and a stuffy preppie couple from Exeter. And Silver gets endless mileage out of Lauren's freshman-week-esque enthusiasm over her classmates' brilliance and diversity...
...necessary, forthright independence. Some recent decisions of the Polish church, as a result, have been made not by Glemp alone but by a council of the episcopate that includes Cracow's Franciszek Cardinal Macharski and seven senior bishops. The council's communal decisions could yet become more defiant toward the regime than Glemp would like. -By Spencer Davidson. Reported by John Moody/Warsaw...
...Movement sparked a pluralistic explosion by pricking the consciousness of every conceivable social group Ethnic Americans waved their hyphens with defiant pride; with the air cleared of stultifying hypocrisy, the dream of racial unity seemed more realizable than ever...