Word: sulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waiting. Louis Johnson did not sulk for long. He simply learned another lesson: how to wait. He turned down a scattering of minor job offers from a conscience-smitten Franklin Roosevelt, still holding out for the War Department or nothing. Finally he took a wartime lend-lease mission to India, from which he shortly returned with Delhi belly and another manuscript which "can never be published," he says, "as long as Winston Churchill is still alive...
...time Mrs. McLean rose to her zenith, the cave dwellers had retreated one by one to the hills, to ride to hounds over the Virginia and Maryland countryside, to gather at the Warrenton Hunt in their pink coats, or to sulk in their silken tents...
...Communist Representative Chou En-lai came back to the Nanking negotiations after a month's sulk in Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to Formosa on what he said was a routine, long-scheduled inspection trip. Observers, recalling the North Kiangsu offensive launched during Chiang's summer absence at Kuling, decided to wait and see. They saw plenty...
...state convention, after the pros had maneuvered a first-ballot deadlock, they threw all their strength to Lieut. Governor Wilbert Snow, 62-year-old poet and former Wesleyan University professor of English. Rushing to make the nomination unanimous, Chester said: "I've always said I'd never sulk in my tent...
Warned that Harvard undergraduates may resent his forthcoming impersonation, the ex-pug replied: "If dat is a insult to dose gents ... let 'em sulk. I'm gettin' a tousan' a week, and what are they gettin...