Word: defiant
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When Thomas Mann came to America in 1938, he said simply: "Wherever I am is German culture." To Germans rallying against Hitler, or, like himself, driven into exile, the declaration was a defiant battle cry; to non-Germans it was something of a portent. "The plot of every one of his novels," said a critic, "concerns an organism whose vitality is threatened; one can never be sure whether the crisis will end ineluctably in death or whether it is not instead the critical point in a rebirth." Because the vitality of that old organism Europe appeared to be ebbing towards...
...Alfred Daniel Wintle, retired, sometime of the Royal Artillery, First The Royal Dragoons, and Eleventh Hussars, is a small, furious, ramrod-straight man who wears a monocle and believes in taking things into his own hands. Through his one good eye he views the world with the wary and defiant air of a man who suspects the worst, and expects to deal with it. Last week he was in jail and proud of it. The charge: forcibly taking the pants off an elderly solicitor...
...floated unerringly toward the baseline. Nielsen never had a chance; his booming serve was his only weapon and it was not enough. He ran himself ragged, and when the close calls went against him he had little energy left for complaint. The best he could muster were a few defiant glares (called "oldfashioned looks" in Britain) at the linesmen...
...months the stock that he had to sell on taking office would have earned him more than half a million dollars in dividends and capital gains.) Bob Stevens bore the brunt of last year's televised Army-McCarthy hearings, became a familiar national figure as the bumbling, decent, defiant victim of McCarthy's tactics ("Come on, Robert, tell us the truth now"). With his resignation all the principals have given up the positions they then held except Joe McCarthy himself, still in the Senate but now stripped of power and prestige. Stevens' successor as Army Secretary: Wilber...
Speakers loudly condemned Resident General Pierre Boyer de la Tour, who had summarily deported the Tunisian leader of the diehard Prèsence Franéaise for his defiant utterances. Cried Dr. Georges Causse, head of the Moroccan Présence Française: "Tunisia is being sold out by a gang of rascals and traitors ... If France abandons us, the love we have for her will turn to hatred. We will fight by all means in our power, and we will come out into the streets even if it means being killed." Down From The Hills. Impatient Arab nationalists...