Word: defiant
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...Peronistas who had massed in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, battle-battered partisans were being passed over the heads of the crowd to waiting ambulances. Fearing such violence, Perón had warned ralliers not to show up with their factional signs. Yet leftists unfurled defiant banners to make their presence felt. They succeeded only too well. Enraged rightists tore down the banners and attacked...
...songs range from quiet lullabies to rowdy music hall ballads, and they demand everything from controlled introspection to furious bitterness from the singers. The songs follow a pattern, each one starting off with an expression of hope or contentment, and ending with a bitter ironic twist or defiant indictment of life...
...suspense drama that had riveted international attention for five days. It began with an ominous summons from the Soviet state prosecutor's office, which ordered the writer to meet with investigators. Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya rejected the order. In response to a second, more peremptory summons, Solzhenitsyn released a defiant written statement of refusal. "Given the widespread and unrestrained lawlessness that has reigned in our country for many years, and an eight-year campaign of slander and persecution against me, I refuse to recognize the legality of your summons. Before asking that citizens obey the law, learn how to observe...
...stirred his biggest ruckus just two days after President Nixon fired Archibald Cox. Smith condemned "this defiant flouting of laws and courts." The Louisiana Bar Association voted to censure Smith for his stand. Last week, at the A.B.A.'s midyear meeting in Houston, halfway through Smith's twelve-month term in office, some delegates were still grousing about "Chesterfield's outspokenness." Smith's Watergate stance, said Texas Bar President Leroy Jeffers, was an intemperate "catering to the popular passions of the time. Let American lawyers be no part of such rotten and shabby business...
...least anticipate those lines with fairly consistent political meanings: "...others say don't hate nothing at all/Except hatred" "It's easy to see without looking too far/That not much/ Is really sacred." "But even the president of the United States/Sometimes must have/to stand naked." These are the apparently defiant lines, the pacifist lines, the moralistic, political lines. But the song goes...