Word: sulking
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...last week Bernadette, who is unmarried, went out of her way to disclose to the press that she expects a baby in the fall. She refused to name the father. "I do not expect it to be easy," she admitted, "some people might want to see me hide and sulk. Others might feel that they were owed some explanation. But my morals," she insisted, "are a private matter...
...that Ulbricht had been under attack for his economic policies and, more important, had displeased Moscow by obstructing East-West diplomatic initiatives. The last and least plausible theory is that, unhappy with the minor role he had been given at the congress, Ulbricht stayed away on his own; the sulk could have been brought on when Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev arrived at Schonefeld and conferred his first fraternal bear hug and kiss on Honecker, leaving a crestfallen Ulbricht standing there on tiptoes...
...General Vang Pao, who controls most of the Armee Clandestine's forces. Vang Pao is generally reluctant to launch offensives unless they are preceded by massive American bombing. He is well known in Laos for his periodic retreats to his base at Long Cheng, where he is said to sulk until his requests are granted. The need to keep Vang Pao fighting had much to do with the CIA's hard line on the bombing...
...quarrel, sulk and groan...
Washington's female press corps reacted by baring its own claws. The real reason for Anne's sulk, said Lynn Lang-way of the Chicago Daily News, was that "she just found out who won the Revolution and she's a sore loser." Other reporters complained that when they tried to get close enough to the Princess to hear her quotes, they were elbowed out by Miss James. One remembered the way she dealt with a U.S. photographer who got in her way: the Briton called him an "American...