Word: defiant
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...taking the required one year of physical education and no more. In the cafeteria, students save seats at their tables for friends; the blacks eat on one side, the whites on the other. A transfer of teachers to balance racially the faculties of the Atlanta public schools turned out defiant crowds of students and parents, and brought threats of mass teacher resignations. Black students were resentful when their schools were arbitrarily closed to keep the identity of white schools alive; they mounted protests in Athens and Atlanta. Black teachers found themselves downgraded, out of jobs, or bearing the brunt...
...poem "Daddy," "They pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue." The Bell Jar is a description of their jar of glue and the way their fusty inept hands fumbled Esther's embarrassed and bruised parts. Her hilarity is as black as it is defiant; she refuses to be retrieved...
...obligation to get a warrant before listening in. Justice John Harlan called third-party bugging a danger that could undermine even the most innocent confidential relationships between citizens. "Were third-party bugging a prevalent practice," said Harlan, "it might well smother that spontaneity-reflected in frivolous, impetuous, sacrilegious and defiant discourse-that liberates daily life...
...American military, there is no easy exit from either the specific problems created by My Lai or the broader debate over how the war in Indochina has been conducted. The Calley verdict could create serious practical problems of command discipline. Already at Khe Sanh, there is a defiant sign: "A" TROOP, 15T OF THE 15T CAV, SALUTES LT. WILLIAM CALLEY. Many of the enlisted infantrymen in Viet Nam agree. Says one, a member of Calley's old Americal Division: "The people back in the world don't understand this war. We were sent here to kill dinks. How can they...
...soon the Free Bengal Revolutionary Radio Center, probably somewhere in Chittagong, crackled into life. Over the clandestine station. Mujib proclaimed the creation of the "sovereign independent Bengali nation," and called on its people to "resist the enemy forces at all costs in every corner of Bangla Desh." The defiant words, however, lacked military substance. At 1:30 a.m. the following day, soldiers seized the sheik in his home. Meanwhile, scattered rioting broke out in West Pakistan to protest the prospect of prolonged military rule...