Word: defiant
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From the little band of professionals on Wake Island came an impudently defiant message phrased for history. Wake's Marines were asked by radio what they needed. The answer made old Marines' chests grow under their campaign bars: "Send us more Japs...
...committee's report will be taken up on the floor of the Senate after the holidays. Defiant Bill Langer is not yet ready to admit he is licked. Said he: "I'm going to write myself one hell of a speech, and deliver it when this comes up in the Senate. I've been in a lot worse jams than this, and came out all right...
...last few months. They had rejected C.I.O. membership, resented union attempts to intimidate them with a picketing mob of some 3,000 men, most of whom had never worked in the plant. Picketers had stoned their autos; they had clubbed picketers. Like Mr. Hill, they were angry and defiant...
...hundred and fifty years ago this week, these defiant, visionary words were read and angrily debated up & down the length of the U.S. They were the ten freedoms for which the U.S. had fought, but they were not yet basic...
Behind this image he would see himself as he once was, when he was the terror of Tiflis-the face harder, no fat on it; the hair black, unkempt; the mouth more defiant. Those were the days when he, a rude Georgian lad, had, by touching Russian dirt and blood, become Russia itself...