Word: defiant
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...manners effeminate. France's Louis XIV concluded that he would never make a soldier, forthwith ordered him to study for the priesthood. It was perhaps the most damaging decision the Sun King ever made. For young Eugen, a minor prince of the Alpine duchy of Savoy, was defiant and outraged. He disguised himself as a woman and fled to Vienna and the court of Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who happened to be a distant cousin. Prince Eugen solemnly swore that he would return to France only in another guise -with sword in hand...
...NCAA was expected to vote at its convention this month to ban the defiant colleges from NCAA championships in any sport, from NCAA-sponsored football bowl games, and from NCAA-sponsored television appearances...
...slashing his throat with a piece of glass. But he recovered. By October 1941, Moulin had escaped France and arrived secretly in Britain, where he joined the Free French movement. De Gaulle, as he recalled later, decided that Moulin was "a man of faith and reason, doubtful of nothing, defiant of everything." Within a few months, Moulin parachuted into the French Alps bearing the microfilm of an order naming him De Gaulle's top representative in France...
...campaigns. When school opened Sept. 21, the university barred any more solicitations, in part because of complaints from politicians that university property was being used by partisan groups in the presidential campaign. Thousands of students responded by staging a protest that trapped a police car summoned to arrest a defiant recruiter. While police and their prisoner huddled for 32 hours inside the patrol car, students and off-campus agitators battered it, rocked it, used the roof as a speaker's rostrum. Stunned, the university vacillated over its next move, then suspended eight ringleaders of the demonstration...
...Rochester, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.) were an almost inevitable complement to the March on Washington. The March was the expression of the organized Negro community -- of those who found hope in the Movement and purpose in the words of ministers and civil rights leaders. The riots represented an outcry, defiant and general, of the outsiders, the genuinely alienated...