Word: defiant
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Doctor's Verdict. But Kurt Schumacher was bound to resist the West, too. Speaking with the defiant snarl that often makes his mildest statements sound like ravings, reacting violently where a milder response might ease his way, he has made it hard for Westerners to trust him. In speech after speech, he attacked the West -first for having no policy, then for adopting a policy he did not like...
Singing her songs of loves that are dead or dying, she seems at times on the verge of tears, suddenly switches to a hardly repressed gust of defiant laughter. What the words do not say she suggests with a sway of her body, a flutter of her fan, a twirl of her floor-brushing skirts. Her biggest hit: Pena Penita (Little Sorrow...
Jules's mother died when he was seven; his father, a presser in a garment factory, never found time to curb his son's surly, defiant spirit. At last, street-brawling, hooky-playing Jules was sent to Bronx P.S. 45, where the principal, famed Child Rehabilitator Angelo Patri, was doing his able best to teach unruly kids...
Gunman Bondurant had forced a Memphis lumberman named Thomas L. Madden to drive him to Middleton, had taken Madden into the bank as a hostage, and was doing fine. He winged a defiant cashier, then threatened to kill a customer, and in the end picked up $10,000. But when he backed out for the getaway, it seemed that half the people in town were waiting. "It was just bang, bang, bang," said an awestruck witness. "It sounded like the Battle of Shiloh. Rifles, shotguns, pistols. Everybody in town had guns...
...Year. He put Scheherazade in the petroleum business and oiled the wheels of chaos. His acid tears dissolved one of the remaining pillars of a once great empire. In his plaintive, singsong voice he gabbled a defiant challenge that sprang out of a hatred and envy almost incomprehensible to the West...