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Word: sullenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Rock. Spencer Tracy is first-rate as a stranger among sullen evildoers in a cat-and-mouse game set in the Southwest (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 14, 1955 | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Never in history had such an evacuation taken place with such a show of overwhelming power. Flung wide across the sullen East China Sea was the mighty U.S. Seventh Fleet. Cruisers and destroyers prowled to and fro within range of Communist shore batteries. From below the horizon, five of the U.S.'s mightiest carriers flung an umbrella of jet fighters above the two scruffy little islands. Closer in. the sea was littered with transports and scurrying landing craft in the disheveled bustle of a major amphibious operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Powerful Retreat | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...final proof that she is more than merely beautiful. The well-bred girl from Philadelphia is completely convincing as the slatternly, embittered wife of aging, alcoholic Matinee Idol Bing Crosby. She slouches around with her glowing hair gone dull, her glasses stuck on top of her head, her underlip sullen, resentment in the very sag of her shoulders and the dangle of her arms. She looks dreadful. Said Seaton: "You know that old cardigan sweater she wears? Well, a lot of actresses would say, 'Well, why don't we just put a few rhinestones here? I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...Black Rock. Spencer Tracy is first-rate as a stranger among sullen evildoers in a cat-and-mouse game set in the Southwest (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Downtown Djakarta sprawls rank and sullen in the fetid subequatorial heat. Wilhelmina Park, once the pride of the city's stolid Dutch proconsuls, now lies half given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INDONESIA: NATION IN JEOPARDY | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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