Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though India was still defiant over Kashmir, Jawaharlal Nehru had to pay a price in diminished moral prestige. In what is often the favorite playground of U.N. demagoguery-the touchy subject of colonialism-a unanimous General Assembly last week adopted a moderate resolution encouraging France to work out its own problems in Algeria. And in the complicated Middle East, where religious hatreds, economic rivalries and power struggles all have their angry spokesmen in the U.N., there was a general willingness (to which even Russia had to pay lip service) to try the way of mediation...
...other mother calling her daughter into the house for supper, the girl's reply would have seemed to be that of a spoiled and defiant child. But to Mrs. Genevieve Maclsaac of Boston, it was cause for rejoicing. Not since little Mary was ten months old and damaged her brain in a fall had she been able to say anything more than an unintelligible "Ahhh." Now, out of the blue, she had spoken her first words...
...outskirts of town, a small band of white men glared up at the cluster of homes atop Foley's Hill, where live the Negroes whose children would try soon again to attend Clinton high school. Thus did Clinton (pop. about 3,700 law-abiding citizens and about 300 defiant segregationists), a town with a split personality, begin a critical day in its history...
...William then paid the traditional respects of the sensitive traveler to the breathtaking scope of U.S. farming, the "defiant pinnacles" of its cities, the eagerness of its university students. He concluded: "Here is a people rather baffled, but a people resolved to know; a people faced, as it seems to them, with a whole globe needing to be set to rights, but determined, either with or without it, to get things done...
...Local 2227 of the United Steelworkers in the tough steel town of West Mifflin, Pa. But last week, bundled in long underwear and layers of sweaters, coats and scarves, Dolores trudged up and down in biting winds and swirling snow before her employer's shabby office bearing a defiant placard: "On Strike." Her complaint was that the union would not let her keep her job if she married a construction worker named Victor Bosnak...