Word: defiant
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Soon after saying his customary dawn prayers, Mahatma Gandhi emerged from his ashram to greet a crowd of thousands gathered to witness the start of his latest and most defiant protest against the "curse" of British rule. A volunteer band raised its horns and, it was reported, blared a few bars of God Save the King before it apparently dawned on the musicians that a rousing salute to the English sovereign was not the most appropriate send-off. Their fading notes were overtaken by the sound of coconuts being smashed together, a traditional Hindu sign of devotion...
...address. There were only a few sentences written on each piece of paper, and he turned through them quickly. He read his statement in his familiar throaty monotone, occasionally raising his voice but otherwise showing little overt emotion including anger. He looked much more composed, exhibiting his customary defiant confidence in comparison to the shaken figure seen in the broadcast last Thursday...
...that he might have been planning an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf. A senior Pakistani intelligence officer denies that Mohammed was tortured. "We used temperature discomfort and sleep deprivation," says this officer, who claims that no more was needed. "Khalid was talking. He was cooperating. He wasn't defiant at all." A few days later, according to Pakistani sources, Mohammed was flown in a U.S. Chinook helicopter to the American air base at Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul. U.S. sources will not confirm that Mohammed was taken to Bagram, but an Afghan general tells TIME that he saw Mohammed...
...Last week, Duterte held a live, nationally televised press conference to deliver his defiant message to the terrorists. Extending the middle finger of one hand, he declared, "It's our turn now to start bombing you ... I will create hell for those criminals ... It's either I who will be killed or you, you idiots." The war on terror began in Southeast Asia just a few months after 9/11. It's far from over...
...fully intends to use it to defend Iraq's capital. As she contemplates deadly gun battles in the streets around her brother's modest two-story home in the middle-class suburb of Bayaa, her leonine eyes blaze fiercely and she throws back her head to thrust out a defiant jaw. "The Americans should be warned that Iraqi women know how to fight and die as well as our men," she says. "We will give up our lives for our beloved country, our beloved Baghdad and our beloved Saddam...