Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper on the walls. The corpses of hundreds of slain Lhasans lay in the streets and parks of the city, from the gutted medical college on Chakpori hill...
...British put a price of $28,000 on his head, and for four years up to 25,000 British troops combed the island of Cyprus searching for him. Everywhere they found traces of his handiwork-a defiant leaflet, a mine in the road, a body in the street. But nowhere did the British find Colonel George Grivas, hated and feared chief of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA. Sometimes the British even wondered whether the legendary Grivas existed...
...Reichskommissar in occupied Ukraine, stood accused of responsibility or complicity in the gas-chamber and concentration-camp deaths of 4,000,000 Russians, 160,000 Jews and 72,000 Poles. After nearly a decade in prison and four months on trial, frail emaciated Erich Koch, now 62, was still defiant. Coughing into a handkerchief, sipping tea and porridge to rally his strength, Koch made long, fiery speeches in Polish in his own defense, disputing the court's right to try him, insisting that Polish Communists were guilty of crimes worse than those he was charged with. Between speeches...
What finally flushed Trumbo was a vote by the academy two days earlier to drop the anti-Communist rule as "unworkable and impractical.'' Main reason: virtually certain Oscar nomination this year of The Defiant Ones. One of its coauthors was Nathan E. Douglas, who in 1953 pleaded the Fifth under his legal name of Ned Young during a House hearing. While Douglas-Young was thus ineligible for an Oscar. Co-Author Harold Jacob Smith had no such record. After a heated debate, the academy voted to leave blacklisting solely to producers: "The proper functioning of the academy...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 13--U.S. Civil Rights Commission agents today won the right to examine disputed voter registration records which a defiant Alabama judge had withheld...