Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Victory Marches. Defiant Flemish students, feeling a step closer to their goal, staged victory marches through the cobblestoned streets of Louvain, chanting Flemish slogans and bringing out the cops again. "Whenever the language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth...
...Kremlin also moved to stanch the flow abroad of increasingly defiant statements from the "underground" set of young intellectuals. Officials of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's press section telephoned Western correspondents to warn them against attending a news conference planned by the mother of Aleksandr Ginzburg and the wife of Yuri Galanskov, two of the four sentenced intellectuals. Both men were sent to labor camps after the trial, and the two women had invited the newsmen to hear details of what had gone on inside the courtroom...
Even now, Mehta-like several of his generation-has an impressive body of achievements to justify his defiant reply to the doubting voices of tradition: "Some people treat us as if we were still kids in the playpen. All of us have already done enough to be more highly regarded than that. I think we will be as great as the generation of Furtwängler and Toscanini...
...they did, Helen Vlachos, the defiant Athens conservative columnist and publisher who closed her papers rather than submit to junta censorship, dyed her hair, evaded the guards that kept her under house arrest, and escaped to London, saying: "I felt I could be more useful to the Greek cause abroad...
...paroxysm of family infighting has broken out, presenting Prime Minister Harold Wilson with the first serious threat to his leadership in his three-year term in office. Labor's left wing is just spoiling for a squabble over proposals for sharp new spending cuts, expected next month. So defiant and independent have some of Labor's ministers grown, said the Sunday Telegraph, that what Britain now has is Cabinet rather than prime ministerial government...