Word: dourness
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...track down the broadcasters of these titillating messages, Belgian police were patrolling the back roads of rural Limburg last week in small trucks loaded with apparatus for locating secret transmitters. But the dour, closemouthed Flemish farmers were as uncooperative as they were in the wartime days when the Gestapo hunted for Belgian underground radio operators...
Even wholehearted P.V.O. assistance may be too late for Burma's tottering government. A recent government amnesty offer has brought in only a handful of Karens. Said one dour Burman official, "It looks as if the Karens want all Burma for their separate state...
...Take the Risk." The instant dour, dynamic Conductor Reiner stepped on the practice podium in his black, choke-collared rehearsal coat, the Met's orchestra began to starch up. After the first session, the musicians even took their parts home to practice Strauss's barbaric score on their own time...
...last 14 years. The New Yorker's Lewis Mumford is what Moses scornfully calls "an Ivory Tower" planner, a devoted disciple of Scotland's famed planner, Sir Patrick Geddes, and a learned critic who for years has been examining Manhattan's skyline with a dour eye. A fortnight ago, the two were hooting at each other in the columns of the New Yorker like motorists in a traffic...
...Russians sounded grumpy, as if they just could not enjoy political surprises. But most others found it a rather relaxing interlude in a tough year-even the Scots, who also take politics seriously. Said one dour Scotsman who found himself in London last week: "I thought something silly like this might happen. I hope it won't go to the puir wee mon's head...