Word: defiant
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...celebrate the anniversary, many of the 220,000 white Rhodesians went to band concerts, braaivleis (barbecues) and balls. Clearly, Rhodesia was not becoming a "banana republic," as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson had predicted. Instead, one nightclub had on its U.D.I, menu such defiant delicacies as "clear turtle soup a la Wilson" and "fried filet of Martin Luther King...
...choice. Disagreeing with most China experts, he saw little point in welcoming a nation that has refused the offered terms. The State Department prefrs not to take the edge off the fear and distrust of China stirred up in the rest of the world by the recent chaos and defiant oratory on the mainland...
...cavalry charge, it was something of a flop. The objective was a sprawl of scrub-grown hills known as "the Crow's Foot," and the mounts were hulking, olive-drab helicopters. Not a single cavalryman carried a saber; instead they cradled automatic rifles in their arms. No plumed, defiant enemy fell to their swift assault, only 47 scrawny, half-naked guerrillas. Yet in its unromantic rendezvous with the Viet Cong last week, the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) was far more effective than anything recorded in the dancing dactyls of Tennyson...
...Defiant Throughout. As for Daniel Arzhak, the major stain on his blotter was his macabre novel This Is Moscow Speaking, which imagined a "Public Murder Day," on which Soviet citizens could kill almost anyone they chose. Excerpts from the trial...
...Defiant Delinquents. Like the West, the East is having its problems with irrepressible youth. Last May ten young Hungarians, aged 17 to 20, were tried for almost everything in the book-rape, gambling, smuggling, drug pushing, currency violations, idolizing the West, anti-Semitism and hatred of visiting African students. The accused were all part of a 200-member gang that haunted downtown Budapest and augustly called itself the "Inner City...