Word: defiant
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...When she's a chaperone"), but flings a challenging glove into the ladies' very teeth, Females have never treated with much respect man-made rules intended to control their activities. Mark our words, until this restriction is removed, there'll be breaking and entering on the part of single, defiant misses, till the students scream for help. Far-sighted, clear-eyed youth--no wonder they are opposed to the new rule! Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...that C. I. O. had encouraged industrial unions to raid their membership, introduced circulars and letters which showed that C. I. O. had been doing what all the world knew it had. Finally he gave a learned summation, accusing C. I. O. of being a "dual organization . . . engaged in defiant insurrection against the A. F. of L.," fortified his charge by reading the dictionary definition of "insurrection" and comparing C. I. O.'s Chairman John L. Lewis to Mussolini, "the unscrupulous and arrogant dictator of whom it has been said he suffers at times from a rush of blood...
Conscious of his responsibilities, worried about how to meet them, Bengt stumbled on the program of the Swedish fascists, thought his problems were solved. He accepted their slogan: "The watchword of the time is action." He tried to make himself hard, defiant, intolerant, although inwardly he was uncertain and usually felt sorry for people in trouble. When he speculated about the waste and agony in his mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting...
Theme of Education Before Verdun is stated on p. 323: "In the middle of a war, when civilization had long since collapsed . . , mankind, tenacious and defiant in the face of gross injustice, fought desperately against outrages that would indeed have cried aloud to heaven in peace, but might now rank as trifling irregularities." As in so many contemporary German novels, Injustice is the theme. The story opens with a minor but significant example. Bertin, who in peacetime had been a well-known German novelist, is now simply a near-sighted private in the Army Service Corps, gets into serious...
...still alive. She has managed to winnow a little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never stop. . . . Fight...