Word: defiant
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Said the magistrate: "No person other than those in authority can be allowed to decide in what part of London a delayed-action bomb should go off." He fined Leighton-Morris ?100, gave him 28 days to pay. Mr. Leighton-Morris' defiant comment: "Even if I had a hundred thousand in the bank, I'd rather do three months than pay the fine...
...Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink-cheeked Faculty Adviser James Hawkes became perturbed and tried to squelch his Nazi talk, Dale conceived a cordial dislike for Instructor Hawkes, became still more defiant. To the dismay of his roommate, Dale installed a bust of Hitler on his desk...
...This country wants no war with any nation. This hemisphere wants no war with any nation." He salved South American pride with the statement that newly acquired U. S. naval bases were open to other republics of the Western Hemisphere for cooperative use. And he came to a defiant climax...
...both of which are in the present war up to the hilt: the Britain of military aristocracy and that of the people who, like Churchill, have difficulty pronouncing a letter-theirs is h. He could, if he wanted, wear his old school (Harrow) tie; instead he wears a cocky, defiant bow. He is a Tory, an imperialist, and has been a strikebreaker and Red-baiter; and yet, when he tours the gutted slums of London, old women say: "God bless you, Winnie...
...dive bombers sent Poland's Government scurrying to safety in Rumania, Starzynski directed the defense of the capital. Over the radio, to the accompaniment of Chopin Polonaises, he gave the world a day-by-day account of the destruction of his city. To German demands for surrender, he defiantly announced: "We are fighting to death." When the Nazis entered the battered city, they found him at his desk, still defiant. He disappeared and Berlin hinted that he had committed suicide. Like many another suicide, he turned up in Dachau Concentration Camp. The Nazis reported that Starzynski's crime...