Word: defiant
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...realism, it was not a war but a war game-the largest Yugoslav maneuvers since World War II, involving some 40,000 regular army troops and innumerable armed civilians. The exercise, pointedly called "Freedom '71," was designed as a defiant answer to the summer-long Soviet threats and maneuvers against the Yugoslavs. Moscow was furious with Belgrade for cozying up to Peking. The Russians were also hoping to exploit the ancient regional rivalries and not so ancient economic quarrels that plague Yugoslavia...
...next two years, to wear mittens any time he is in a public place. "The mittens," said the judge, "must be of a texture a least as heavy as 8-oz. duck." One might as well break Artur Rubinstein's fingers. Mack has disappeared, in what presumably is defiant despair; a warrant is still out for his arrest...
Others believe with some justification that Nixon has chosen his present strategy shrewdly. The original bombshell announcement, they say, was bound to be followed by the harsh chorus of controversy. Better to leave to others the first-aid job of mollifying the unhappy and cajoling the defiant; that is John Connally's main task, they reason, and the President can later be brought back on stage when all parties are ready to reach a consensus in the fresh light of reason. Clearly, Nixon cannot wait too long before committing the prestige of his office to finding that consensus. Still...
...those who look upon this action as irregular or defiant of church authority, I have this to ask: How many priests have ever been disciplined for their racist and condemning attitudes toward Mexicans and blacks? How many priests and bishops would feel as much at ease sharing the bread of la raza as they would eating steak and drinking Scotch with the growers and their allies...
...after all, cut our political teeth on Lyndon Johnson, who sent his killers over to nail the coonskin to the wall. Johnson organized us as effectively as any antiwar campaign, for his defiant cowboy style would admit no doubts or hopes for respite: he intended to win no matter how many are killed or who might protest. Nixon learned from Cambodia that the shoot from-the-hip style was a risk. If he told the people what he intended to do they would get angry; so, instead, he lied, couching plans for victory in the rhetoric of withdrawal, calling mass...