Word: defiants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nerves took effect on Germany. Hammering away on the Second Front threat implied in the Hopkins-Marshall visit to London (TIME, April 20), U.S. broadcasts were rewarded by what some old hands considered the first case of defensive jitters on the German radio: a great number of uncomfortably defiant replies...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...
...Japs had learned much, or nothing, in a decade in China, about the treatment of conquered people. The citizens of Manila prepared grimly to endure. They listened to the defiant rumble of MacArthur's cannon, echoing across the Bay. Their spirits quickened. Over the dead city went a whispered defiance: "MacArthur will have dinner in a Manila hotel before the end of the month...
Corwin's show was no smutch. Because serious radio is a delicate matter, its flaws (occasionally uncontrolled acting, a few poor pomposities of style) were disproportionately jarring. But the script sang with the defiant tunes of people and machines, and the narrator, Navy's Lieut. Robert Montgomery, handled well the address at the end to the people of the United Nations...
...last defiant gesture, two Japanese who were manning a now useless machine gun took off their shoes and hurled them at a tank. The Americans were unable to leave the tank without being shot, so they ran the steel monster over the Japanese position...