Word: defiants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throat and Backbone. Turkey was defiant. Recalling earlier Russian demands in Armenia and at the Dardanelles, General Kiazim Kara Bekir said Turks would fight for every inch. He added: "The world must know that the Straits form the throat of the Turkish nation and the Kars Plateau its backbone." The Turkish National Assembly at once voted his army more funds...
Then she stopped before a fierce-eyed, coldly pretty blonde. "This woman I recognize." (It was Irma Grese, Kramer's assistant.) The two women stared at each other a moment, then Fraulein Grese lowered her defiant eyes...
...Marshal showed the same stoic indifference. But two witnesses jolted the old man out of his apathy. Into a booing, hissing court, under heavy escort, came two of France's most hated men : suave Count Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy ambassador to Ger man-occupied Paris, and defiant Joseph Darnand, once head of Vichy's hated militia. The court had called them despite the refusal of Prosecutor Andrá Mornet to hear the evidence of "a crook and a gunman...
Shots in the Dark. Halsey selected that night for his most defiant gesture. His battleships steamed within ten miles of the coast of Honshu, northeast of Tokyo. As they bore south, each trained the 67-ft. barrels of its nine 16-inch rifles over the starboard beam...
That night, Halsey made yet another defiant gesture: covered by destroyers, U.S. light cruisers steamed up and bombarded coastal installations around Cape Nojima, at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. One big explosion was seen; the rest was shrouded in the soup...