Word: defiants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last few months. They had rejected C.I.O. membership, resented union attempts to intimidate them with a picketing mob of some 3,000 men, most of whom had never worked in the plant. Picketers had stoned their autos; they had clubbed picketers. Like Mr. Hill, they were angry and defiant...
...hundred and fifty years ago this week, these defiant, visionary words were read and angrily debated up & down the length of the U.S. They were the ten freedoms for which the U.S. had fought, but they were not yet basic...
Behind this image he would see himself as he once was, when he was the terror of Tiflis-the face harder, no fat on it; the hair black, unkempt; the mouth more defiant. Those were the days when he, a rude Georgian lad, had, by touching Russian dirt and blood, become Russia itself...
Leon Henderson was helpless. Most cotton mills last week were ignoring the retroactive feature of OPACS' price ceilings on gray goods, were billing at the old higher prices. Some furniture makers were still defiant of "jawbone" price control, as Chrysler had been (TIME, July 7). The price of cotton rose 3/4? to 15.21? a pound, a new eleven-year peak. Commodity price indexes paused on their upward flight, but briefly. Montgomery Ward's big fall & winter catalogue came out with 70% of the items showing higher prices than last spring, and a hedge clause on all prices...
...that was changed last week. The Robin Moor sinking, and the defiant statement with which Nazi officials followed it up, made it clear that Axis reprisals were coming. So Franklin Roosevelt took the step...