Word: defiant
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...settling the Falkland Islands dispute. Israeli bombs fell on southern Lebanon, but the Palestine Liberation Organization did not immediately retaliate. Resisting the pleas of religious zealots, the Israeli Cabinet voted unanimously to carry out the final withdrawal from the Sinai and sent in some 6,000 troops to drag defiant militants from the last Jewish settlement. The action cleared the way for Sunday's successful return of the Sinai to Egypt...
...even as Israeli soldiers were bulldozing the remains of Jewish settlements in the Sinai and removing the last defiant occupants, Israel sent its warplanes northward to bomb and strafe some strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. That air assault breached a cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...
There is a touch of bravado fantasy in these defiant acts, as there is when a white woman journalist solicits sex in exchange for a favorable story. Such a thing is possible, but not likely to occur in the heavyhanded, abject way depicted in the book...
...attempts to have an active role in government. In February he was forced by the generals to dissolve his Cabinet and name ministers more acceptable to the army. On the day before the takeover, Sattar again angered Ershad by swearing in a civilian as Vice President-a defiant move that led Ershad to seize power himself. "Sattar is an honorable man," the general said, "but he couldn't supply the leadership...
...next, the wind will swivel around out of Canada to bring down a "blue Norther," a deep, dry blast of almost metaphysical cold. "There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed-wire fence," they tell themselves in that Texas way that can lend defiant self-congratulation to the disastrous or the unavoidable. "And the fence blew down...