truculent
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Truculent and unrepentant of having formed the secessionist C.I.O., he had returned to A.F.L.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the 79 aboard the Truculent only 15 had been saved.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he had gotten some help from Planemaker Glenn Martin and "a great deal of information" from Commander Thomas D. Davies, who piloted the Navy's Truculent Turtle in its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio.
From Time Magazine Archive
Truculent and shrewd, he dramatically declared: "If I am acquitted I will have a hundred new clients tomorrow, all ready to give me more money to continue my experiments!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The monitors Erebus and Terror, with the destroyers Termagant, Truculent and Manly, were stationed at a position suitable for the long range bombardment of Zeebrugge in co-operation with the attack.
From The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)
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