Word: defiant
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Closest thing to a defiant Senator Borah in Japan's muzzled Diet has been a slim, sharp-faced, sad-eyed little man named Takao Saito. Ever since he returned to Japan from Yale ('04), he has championed lost causes. He looks at once so meek and so dignified that his fellow Dietarians call him Lord Mouse. Last month Lord Mouse startled Japan by standing up in the Diet and roaring like a lion: When will this war end? What does all this high-sounding talk about a New Order mean? For two hours he flayed the Cabinet...
Thus Peter Barnes and James Richards, defiant and calm, were last week hanged by their necks until dead. They had been convicted by a jury of their peers of planting on Coventry's main street a bomb that blew to bits five innocent citizens. Most Englishmen could only say that they were murderers who got their just deserts...
...Down on merchantmen, trawlers, fishermen, lightships they swooped. The British Isles were indeed snowbound-but the Royal Air Force wasn't. The German press claimed frightful tonnage sunk, admitted losing three bombers. The British ridiculed Berlin's claims and announced a new pursuit plane called the Defiant with speed enough and ample fire-power to cut down Germany's new 315-m.p.h. Junkers bombers (Ju88). Berlin claimed the week's raids proved the British Isles "vulnerable." The British claimed their defense had proved itself ample to cope with a spring Blitzkrieg...
Small nations, some fear-ridden, some defiant and cocksure, boasted of preparedness. The Netherlands, Rumania warned aggressors away. Hungary edged closer to Italy. Least was said in Scandinavia, which was most squarely on the spot...
...bought his receiving set, a Defiant 9-tube super-heterodyne job built for service and not for looks, for $75; but his transmitter he built himself at a very moderate cost, and runs it on the A.C. current conveniently provided by the University. His monthly electricity bill for running the whole radio station amounts to ten cents...