Word: defiant
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...Navy wore an air of defiant calm.. "It's not serious but it's awfully inconvenient," said a spokesman. They sent out some tugs and pulled. Nothing happened. They dug a trench around her, dredged a channel through 830 yards of shoals back to the channel. They pumped off all her oil, blasted tunnels under her with high-pressure hoses, got more tugs. Several hundred bluejackets raced from the port side to the starboard side and back, sallying ship in an effort to free her ample bottom from the sucking mud. Nothing happened...
...exception to this cautious policy was 67-year-old Baron Lyle of Westbourne, whose firm of Tate & Lyle is the biggest sugar refinery in Britain (the baron's coat of arms includes interlaced sugar canes surmounted by a defiant rooster). Baron Lyle is the sponsor of the "Mr. Cube" cartoons, which feature an animated lump of sugar with definite opinions against proposals to nationalize Britain's sugar industry (TIME, Dec. 19). The "Mr. Cube" cartoons, he declared frostily, would continue to appear on his sugar packages, at least until the King dissolves Parliament...
...also made an extraordinary claim which it did not document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution, nor did they hear of his alleged...
...little auditorium was heavy with the odors of whisky breaths and unwashed bodies. Eyes-cunning, defiant, haunted, hopeless, anguished and apathetic-fixed on the platform where McKeown and Larder sat surrounded by a small band of soldiers and converts...
Standing stolidly, his feet apart, his chin jutting out at the old, defiant angle, he cried: "If the government of Britain is entrusted to us at this crisis in her fate, we will do best for all, without fear or favor, without class or party bias . . . but with the clear and faithful simplicity that we showed in the days of Dunkirk . . ." An thony Eden, Churchill's deputy, also echoed wartime urgency: "We can promise only hard and challenging times...