Word: defiant
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...mood, for a change, was just right for the time. The jazz world was astir under the crushing weight of swing; the big dance bands had carried off the healthiest child of Negro music and starved it of its spirit until its parents no longer recognized it. In defiant self-defense, Negro players were developing something new?"something they can't play," Monk once called it?and at 19, Monk got to the heart of things by joining the house band at Minton...
...Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick placed against their necks. Kaduk had already served nine years in an East German prison for what he contemptuously called "the Auschwitz business...
...checkpoint was the New York Times's Milton Bracker, who, on entering Jordan, gave the wrong answer to a routine question: "Are you a Christian?" "No," replied Bracker. "I am a Jew." Authorities begged him to retract his response, if only for their records. When the defiant Bracker refused, they admitted him to Jordan anyway...
...making Bucky rich. In the last ten years he has grossed about $1,000,000, and his income is continually rising; this year it will be about $200,000. But the only way Easy Street seems to have changed him is to have eliminated the need for the defiant extravagances that used to burden his family and amuse his friends in the days when the only things that crackled in his pocket were overdue bills. Unquestionably, Bucky could have made much more by incorporating himself or going into organized production. But Bucky is not interested. Says he: "Whatever...
...long string of crimes. But more than the arrest of the two union leaders was involved: the miners were in open defiance of the government in La Paz. And their leader, Juan Lechin, 50, Bolivia's far-leftist Vice President, was using their grievances as a defiant bid for power against Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivia's constitutional President, who intends to run for re-election next...