Word: defiant
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Having spoken, King Peter motored home. Next day the London press, led by the sober-sided Times, called him defiant, a flouter of Churchill, one who "threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government." A spokesman of the Government called the royal statement, issued without his Government's sanction, "unconstitutional." In Belgrade, some 50,000 of King Peter's subjects shouted: "Down with the destroyer of unity, King Peter! Down with the Fifth Column émigrés...
When Winston Churchill uttered his defiant "We shall fight on the beaches . . . in the fields and in the streets," he knew the man to back his words with armed men. It was eagle-faced, gentle-eyed General Sir John Greer Dill, recalled from France, who had become Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
...Editions' 21st volume, a stirring story of an escape from the Nazis, is the first to be published in liberty, the first to omit the defiant inscription of its predecessors: "Ce volume, publié aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes, a été achevé d'imprimer sous l'oppression a Paris" ("This book, published with the aid of certain patriots of literature, has been printed under the oppression in Paris...
Down Gorky Street. Almost three years behind blitz schedule, the Wehrmacht at last saw Moscow. Some 57,000 German prisoners from the Polish campaign shuffled through the Russian capital on their way to internment. They were shabby, unshaven, a few of them still defiant. But most looked like beaten...
...mutineers were defiant. They had plenty of food: from neutral Bedouins they bought sheep at $20 a head. They had artillery, mortars, tommy guns, armored cars. They waited. Just before midnight of the ultimatum's deadline their outposts heard British troops advancing...