Word: defiants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observers had feared (TIME, Jan. 12), 73-year-old Generalissimo Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy has indeed become "a sort of Philippine quisling." That was how Douglas MacArthur's defiant headquarters on Bataan Peninsula defined him. From Manila', one day last week, General Aguinaldo broadcast a demand that Douglas MacArthur surrender immediately. Said a War Department communique: "The appeal was ignored by General MacArthur...
LONDON--Singapore flashed to the world by radio today the defiant war cry, "we shall win" but here the great base, sheltering 750,000 persons, already was written off as lost and with it the greatest symbol of white supremacy of the Far East...
...Causeway dwindled off. Finally, with a touch of ceremony such as only the British could devise in such circumstances, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who had been the first Britons to meet the Japanese up Thailand way, marched across, the last to leave Malaya. They marched to the defiant skirl of an Argyll bagpipe...
From the little band of professionals on Wake Island came an impudently defiant message phrased for history. Wake's Marines were asked by radio what they needed. The answer made old Marines' chests grow under their campaign bars: "Send us more Japs...
...committee's report will be taken up on the floor of the Senate after the holidays. Defiant Bill Langer is not yet ready to admit he is licked. Said he: "I'm going to write myself one hell of a speech, and deliver it when this comes up in the Senate. I've been in a lot worse jams than this, and came out all right...