Word: defiant
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Though some Phi Delta Kappans protested, and the Harvard chapter went so far as to stage a defiant meeting with Negro Philosopher Alain Locke as lecturer, Ohio State remained in Coventry-until Pearl Harbor. Then the fraternity's biggest chapter, at Columbia's Teachers College, led a revolt which forced a national referendum. Result: for keeping the color line: 20 chapters (mostly Southern); for repeal: 67 chapters, more than the necessary two-thirds...
Serbia's rulers were often personally weak and depraved, but the Serbs in general grew hard and defiant in the schools of Turkish tyranny and European Realpolitik. They never suffered from the flabbiness that comes with ease. In the First Balkan War (1912), Serbia and her Balkan allies finally ousted Turkey...
...nerves took effect on Germany. Hammering away on the Second Front threat implied in the Hopkins-Marshall visit to London (TIME, April 20), U.S. broadcasts were rewarded by what some old hands considered the first case of defensive jitters on the German radio: a great number of uncomfortably defiant replies...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...
Corwin's show was no smutch. Because serious radio is a delicate matter, its flaws (occasionally uncontrolled acting, a few poor pomposities of style) were disproportionately jarring. But the script sang with the defiant tunes of people and machines, and the narrator, Navy's Lieut. Robert Montgomery, handled well the address at the end to the people of the United Nations...