Word: defiant
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...Suez Canal crisis echoed in a surge of discontent from tiny Panama (pop. 900,000). Miffed at not being invited to the London conference on Suez, the government of President Ricardo Arias issued a defiant communiqué notifying the world that "this republic will not consider herself obliged to respect any of the decisions or recommendations adopted by the conference.'' Panama should have been invited, said the communiqué, because 1) the Panama Canal "is in some respects similar to the Suez Canal," and 2) a large merchant fleet flies the Panamanian flag.* On a visit to Cairo...
...flowers, hailed him as the "Hero of Nationalization, Hero of Bandung, Hero of Brioni, the first Egyptian to rule Egypt!" Standing at last before his office window-it had taken his Cadillac an hour and a half to make what is usually a seven-minute trip-Nasser shouted his defiant answer: "The noise that we expected arose in London and Paris without any justification except imperialist reasons, the habit of sucking the blood of nations and stealing their rights. As for France and the vulgarity of the French Foreign Minister, I will say nothing. I leave it to the Algerians...
...boxlike boats known as landing craft, tank (LCT). In grunting, ponderous procession, they nosed in on landing beaches, dropped gaping jaws to disgorge tanks, trucks and men on shell-torn beaches. Their mission was dangerous but not dashing, and their ill-assorted officers were drawn together in a curiously defiant camaraderie of the mocked...
Will you please congratulate Boris Chaliapin on his Hussein cover? The conceited, defiant "look what I've done" on Hussein's face is superb...
...true that Russia's new masters had only reviled the old tyrant in order to perpetuate his tyranny. But there was a new face in Russia, and a new song on its lips. The old song of Stalin's was a menacing basso proclaiming a defiant people encircled by a hostile world; now a mellower baritone pleasingly rendered, "Why Can't We Be Friends...