Word: defiants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door a shot rang out. The officer jumped behind a tree, sent for reinforcements. Around 10 o'clock in the bright starlit night, a huge force-14 State troopers and local policemen, eleven civilians-had assembled to demand that the gunmen surrender. There was the classic defiant answer, less frightening than it would have been if the boys' voices had not been changing: "If you want us you'll have to come get us. And you'd better bring an army with...
...Defiant Grower Johnston did not say that the Government should be the goat forever. But, comparing surplus cotton stocks to a strategic-materials stockpile, he intimated that the Government might sell the cotton abroad at a profit after the war. (He recalled that after World War I the foreign cotton market soared.) He also placed faith in the Council's fight for greater domestic consumption. He even preached cotton hosiery. When he reproached American girls for running around with silk stockings "like yellow-legged pullets," the wife* of a retired broker named William Henry Wallace Jr., sitting...
Party. On the sixth ballot at Philadelphia, when the triumphant galleries still shouted "We want Willkie!," when Thomas Dewey had released his delegates and Wendell Willkie had won the Republican nomination, came one last, defiant Illinois Dewey vote. It was cast by Delegate Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, die-hard isolationist, the New Deal's bitterest journalistic enemy. Last week the bitter hate-filled Chicago Tribune read the Republican candidate out of the Republican Party: "Mr. Willkie entered the Republican Party as a mysterious stranger, suddenly and to the astonishment of thousands of the party members...
...columnists and the politicians; they were too busy clarifying their positions and branding each other as small minorities seeking to mislead the people. The two weeks of the vacation witnessed a heightening tempo of war fever and of bitter debate, reaching a mighty crescendo in President Roosevelt's defiant message to Congress yesterday...
Outwardly, men in Great Britain were defiant; the questions were deep inside them. "Christmas," said a placard in downtown London, "is 1,940 years old and Hitler is only 51. He can't spoil our Christmas." If shops escaped bombings, they advertised: "Open As Usual." A tea shop which had been hit and lost its front wall announced "More Open than Usual...