Word: defiant
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...sullen calm seems to hang over Gdansk. But beneath the surface, a dangerous and defiant mood can be seen in underground leaflets, posters and graffiti. Said one message chalked on a metal door in the port of Gdynia, near Gdansk: THE WINTER IS YOURS- THE SPRING WILL BE OURS. Seeking to dampen Gdansk's rebellious spirit, authorities recently removed an inscription from a wall behind the towering monument to workers killed in the 1970 uprising. It read: "They died so that you could live in dignity." Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs...
...Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones, to clunk, snarling, from one literary dinner party to another...
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 79, Roman Catholic Primate of Poland for more than 30 years, fiery advocate of the faith and defiant symbol of Polish nationalism under Soviet-dominated Communist regimes. An astute political infighter and vigorous defender of social and political rights, he mastered a precarious form of cooperation with the commissars that preserved the church's independence and helped pave the way for the development of the Solidarity trade-union federation...
...painter who ever became a court favorite and a national culture hero by painting dogs. He painted other creatures too-ptarmigans and parrots, monkeys, cats, horses, cattle and, especially, deer; there was a time when no cottage parlor or country hall lacked its framed print of Landseer's defiant twelve-point stag, The Monarch of the Glen...
...government building and makes a jury-rigged sail out of it. Caught in a storm at sea, Napoleon at once contends with nature and embodies the destiny of France. As his boat yaws wildly amid the swells, a sign flashes on the screen saying that Napoleon is "the defiant sport of the ocean" and is being "carried to the triumphant Heights of History." One can hardly imagine a less subtle scene. On paper it is embarrassing. Reading this, you would want to dig your fingernails into the flesh of you palm, as if you were hearing some high-pitched screech...