Word: defiant
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...Wallace never recovered. An embittered and disappointed man, he found some small solace in demanding and getting the Commerce job of his old enemy, Jesse Jones. In April 1945, he saw Truman step into the position which he, Wallace, might have had. A year and a half later, confused, defiant and disillusioned, he rushed headlong out of the Democratic pasture and straight into the Communists' outstretched hands...
...Cambronne . . . was not a "defiant vulgarism as a reply to a British demand for surrender...
...Lack of Advice. But if Harry Truman seemed resigned to failure, Secretary of State George Marshall was crisply defiant. Appearing two days later before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he explained exactly what that "necessary action" should be. Said Marshall in plain, undiplomatic language: "It is fundamental . . .to develop a basis of government [in China] not restricted to a small group and to clean up waste and corruption. But even more important, it must give definite, active consideration to the land problems of the peasantry. . . . This is critical from a purely military point of view...
...orchestra did handsomely by Britten's tricky music (the best of his music is written for the orchestra, not for the soloists). But the Met just couldn't break itself of its old habits. Frederick Jagel neither looked nor acted the difficult part of a crude and defiant Suffolk fisherman; he was simply a posturing Wagnerian in a sou'wester. The innkeeper-madam thought the part called for the kind of hand-on-hip coquetry of a road company Carmen...
Manhattan's Communist New Masses, butcher-paper bible of the far left, last week had a birthday-its 37th and its last. Mounting costs had starved it to death; the 1947 deficit was an unmanageable $65,000. In two doleful, defiant pages, the editors wrote the obituary of a Marxist magazine that had first attracted, then repelled, some of the most brilliant writers...