Word: defiant
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...expect the Cruise missiles to fly before next Thursday: Despite the familiar "time is running out" warning to a defiant President Slobodan Milosevic Friday, NATO's attack plan still has a few steps to go. The Western alliance needs its 16 members to sign an "activation order," which mandates the generals to give the attack order. That can't happen before Germany's new parliament convenes, which is unlikely to be before Monday. And then there's the matter of getting a signature out of Italy, whose government collapsed Friday. "Despite resigning, Romano Prodi could sign the order...
Thin love ain't no love at all," says Sethe, the fiercely defiant runaway slave in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Oprah Winfrey's love for the book was thick, warm, abiding. With eyewitness immediacy and the God's-eye view of fictive art, Morrison brought the intimate evil of slavery to life in the story of a mother's ultimate sacrifice. When Winfrey discovered the novel upon its publication in 1987, she was moved as a reader, as an African American, as a woman who suffered the death of the child she gave birth to when...
...Crimson deflated this defiant rally when Sarles converted another penalty corner, on assists from Kalil and LaSovage...
...Proud, defiant and tired of stereotypes. Heavyweight actress Camryn Manheim of the TV show The Practice said it got old watching Lara Flynn Boyle, her bag-of-bones co-star, get all the steamy action. Fat women like their bread buttered too, so Manheim made a bold demand of her producer, she told the crowd: "I want a kiss, and I want one with tongue...
...warily to the Senate Chamber--for that is where it is likely to hear the ominous rumble of truth. In Watergate it came in early 1974, when conservative Senator James L. Buckley called for Richard Nixon's resignation, starting the massive Republican defection that ultimately destroyed him. For the defiant and powerful Republican Senator Bob Packwood, it came in 1993, when freshman Democrat Patty Murray, speaking in a tremulous voice that barely carried to the galleries, found the words that moved the gentlemen of the club into ousting their colleague for sexual harassment...