Word: defiant
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...wish that he remain in the Yugoslav embassy. First, there is no guarantee that the Soviets will not arrest him when he leaves and, second, what is the use of his taking over when he can't achieve the withdrawal of the Rus sians?" Defiant, but sensible of their lives, some of the workers' councils insisted that they wanted no armed help from the West, which might jeopardize their fight; they were confident they could win alone. The fact is, that for all their tanks, the Communists were bereft of one necessary ingredient of Soviet control, a trustworthy...
...France, the beleaguered Communists tried a desperate show of defiant strength. They ordered their strongest instrument-the Confédération Générate du Travail, whose 1,000,000-plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt...
...Brethren." On the Suez issue he was still defiant. "So long as there is a foreign force, one single foreign soldier in Egypt," said he, "we shall not begin repairing the canal and we shall not begin running the canal. Eden will never force us to surrender. Egypt was made to fight, my brethren, we were made to fight. After ten days of fighting, we are all of us one monolithic people...
...Pipelines. In these defiant words, with their faded Churchillian echoes, Egypt's strongman prepared his people for guerrilla war-and did not add what his words implied: that his army and air force had been badly mauled. The same day, the chief priests of Cairo's famed El Azhar Mosque proclaimed a jihad, or holy war, against Britain and France...
...ruthless ferocity that awes her enemies and has left her few professional friends. Some have helped her on her way. But from the first the lonely, fat girl from Manhattan saw herself pitted single-handed against a world of enemies. In her triumph, she takes fierce pride in her defiant self-reliance. At La Scala supporters of a rival diva hiss her regularly. It only arouses Callas to cold fury...