Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both refused. Said Sun Publisher Donald H. Patterson: "There is simply nothing to retract." Each newsman was ordered to pay $1,647 in court costs; the Times was weighing its response, but the Sun decided to pay. Said Managing Editor Paul Banker: "We don't want to appear defiant of the Soviet judicial system, such...
...only sense the pain and isolation of the men in defiant yet oddly downcast expressions, in hushed stories told in hotel rooms, in wistful asides about other men's wives who remained faithful. Yet through the weekend, anger and a tinge of self-pity take nothing away from their evident pride and courage...
Despite such calming gestures, a residue of bitterness persists in the wake of Proposition 13's passage. The city council in Livermore (pop. 54,400) has taken a defiant stand, vowing to spend $320,000 on new council chambers even while threatening to fire a fourth of the city's 207 employees. "There might never be that much money on hand again for years," explains Assistant City Manager Edward Shilling...
...contrast, the second anniversary observance last week was brief. There was no work stoppage to hobble Johannesburg homes and offices; blacks were too worried by rising unemployment to risk dismissal. Shops closed, but only for a few hours. There was no defiant stone tossing at police who had thrown up heavy roadblocks and who cruised the areas where observances were held. A police official had warned one leader of the community: "If one stone is thrown, I won't even waste my men's time in coming to pick you up. I will send word...
...rest on red pants, and waits for the action. Kim has but a single ambition: to play for her beloved Reds. When a male onlooker points out that no woman has ever played big league baseball, Kim's face, a mass of strawberry freckles, is a study in defiant dismissal...