Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought his receiving set, a Defiant 9-tube super-heterodyne job built for service and not for looks, for $75; but his transmitter he built himself at a very moderate cost, and runs it on the A.C. current conveniently provided by the University. His monthly electricity bill for running the whole radio station amounts to ten cents...
...Defiant speeches drew a crowd of thousands, and patient Czech police, without truncheons or revolvers, began slowly and persuasively to edge the excited students down toward the river. Some students who refused to be herded broke from the rest, dashed into old Palace Square. Since they seemed bent on nothing more than singing Czech and Slovak national anthems, the unarmed Czech police were all for letting them alone, but German civilians with drawn revolvers suddenly appeared and drove the police to drive the students back to their university...
Tony Stralla, defiant in a tan sombrero, angrily snorted that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...
...much money it made, 2) how well it did by their friends in society. Paul Smith talked Publisher George Cameron into giving him a little elbow room and the next thing San Francisco knew the Chronicle had defied a shipowners' and merchants' boycott, front-paged a defiant editorial declaring its independence of The Interests...
...Madrid, Don Juan Ignacio got his paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper" and folded...