Word: defiant
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...cops were not abashed. Headquarters immediately leaked a rumor intended to intimidate the council-that 2,000 bluecoats would quit en masse if the law was passed. The firemen-at least on the surface-struck the same defiant pose. The association not only gave Purcell a vote of confidence, but decided to continue his salary out of union funds and kick through with all the money he needed for his defense...
...tell him what he should do. A number of Congressmen were demanding that he fire Dean Acheson; a number of others were trying to hold his feet to the fire for his foreign policy, an attempt to which he angrily assigned a purely political motive. It was in defiant reaction to those irritations that he had tossed off his truculent assertion that the President had the right to send U.S. troops anywhere in the world, whether Congress liked...
...North Koreans were defiant enough to transgress even this restricted legal loop. The U.N. instantly reacted. But when Mac Arthur was chasing the Korean Reds toward the 38th parallel, an outcry arose that showed how deeply the border-crossing fetish had sunk into the Western mind. MacArthur, it was held, would in become an aggressor if he crossed the parallel in pursuit of the criminal force...
...Americans might take some bitter comfort from the fact that their soldiers, traditionally unaccustomed to retreat, were rapidly learning that difficult military art. They retreated in orderly fashion, with very few losses. Their morale remained high. They were no longer alarmed when temporarily surrounded. Some of the more defiant noncoms and junior officers were reluctant to withdraw when they thought they could stand fast, but most were encouraged by persistent rumors that they would soon be quitting the hellish Korean theater altogether...
...many of you will recall, we have had a great variety of covers for our Christmas issues. They have included Norway's heroic Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, who at the time (1944) was a defiant and solitary prisoner of the Nazis; Marian Anderson, around whose life and career TIME'S editors told the story of the Negro spiritual; and the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who as chief of Army Ground Forces in 1942 was responsible for providing some measure of Christmas cheer to 3,000,000 G.I.s...