Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overlooks a tiny, sandy valley where 4,000 Frenchmen were executed during the Nazi occupation. His face working with emotion, De Gaulle relit the flame of the resistance, prayed for a few moments at the tomb of the 16 resistance heroes buried in the fort. When at last the defiant strains of the Marseillaise rolled out over the valley, there was unabashed weeping in the crowd...
...Camp. For all the defiant oratory, the spectacle of the Yugoslav David facing down the Soviet Goliath no longer stirred the West as it had in 1948. This time Western observers were less likely to overlook the fact that in his last speech to the congress, Tito was careful to hold out an olive branch to Moscow: "We shall in future continue to try not to give any cause to anybody to reproach us with reason that we are weakening the international workers' movement...
HONOLULU, May 1--The Coast Guard intercepted the ketch Golden Rule skippered by former Lt. Cmdr. Albert Smith Bigelow '29, Thursday and took it in tow a short time after it had set sail from Honolulu in a defiant attempt to reach the U.S. nuclear test zone in the Pacific...
...Sterilize instruments and bedding far more rigorously; staph can live, snug in blankets and mattresses, for months. ¶ Do not give antibiotics haphazardly, and never in small "preventive" doses, which probably serve mainly to encourage resistant staph strains. ¶ When an infection apparently caused by a defiant strain is detected, treat it with full doses of the most promising antibiotic. At the same time, culture the germs in the lab, and confirm (by complex tests) that the right drug is being used. Isolate the patient as far as possible...
...subjects in an interview this week with French newsmen. Morocco, he told them, "cannot maintain its present policy of restraint if the Algerian problem does not receive a solution which gives satisfaction to the national aspirations of the Algerian people and recognizes their liberty and sovereignty." In a defiant gesture of solidarity with Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba in his quarrel with France, the King endorsed Bourguiba's long-standing dream of a North African federation composed of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria...