Word: defiant
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...morning sky was grey, and the paraders had bitter words for the priests who had been praying for rain to relieve Italy's drought. Superstitious Communists carried defiant signs: "Is it raining? Will it rain? Certainly not until after the Feast of Unita!" They were right; soon a hot sun enveloped the crowds as they watched bicycle races and boxing matches, played roulette, danced, drank, threw baseballs (50 lire for three shots) at caricatures of priests and bishops and of Premier Alcide de Gasperi and tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who was by far the most popular target...
...ignoring style changes, says the magazine in summation, the Russian "has made a defiant gesture at class consciousness that fails absolutely. Actually he would be a great deal wiser to follow modern fashion in its entirety or invent a completely different form of dress. His humdrum neatness, coupled with naive mistakes, merely gives him a bourgeois look...
Inseparable Connection. One by one, National Committee members accused of Dixiecrat activities marched before the credentials committee. Some pleaded that it was all a mistake-deep down inside they had been for Truman all along. Others were truculently defiant. After hearing them out, the credentials committee unanimously recommended the purging of five Southerners. The committee briskly voted approval. It was the first such expulsion since...
...With a defiant "hands off!" meanwhile, the Yugoslav government kept up the furious pace of its propaganda war with the Kremlin. Blared Tito's Foreign Office last week: "Yugoslavia's people and its government will not allow anyone whomsoever to interfere in their internal affairs." As to the 31 Russian nationals who, Moscow said, had been treated "inhumanly" in Yugoslav prisons, they were all "spies, saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries...
When the town ignored them, they dragged nail kegs to the spot where the bench had originally reposed, and perched on them like defiant octopuses clinging to piling. The chief of police threatened to confiscate the nail kegs. That was more than the old men could take. They demanded, and finally got, a special municipal election to decide whether the bench should be restored...