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Word: sullenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which is translated by Poles as "poor, terrible and atrocious." There remain a few privately owned restaurants, but they differ from the state-owned only in the fact that the customer may have to wait 20 instead of 30 minutes before his presence is acknowledged by the sullen and inefficient staffs. On an average Warsaw evening, nearly every restaurant is the scene of brawls and near brawls between outraged customers and stony-eyed waiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Hygiene of the Soul | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...results in the overseas territories were as astonishing. Only French Guinea, in the control of tough anti-Gaullist Premier Sekou Toure, voted no. Senegal, Niger, even supposedly sullen Madagascar came through with thumping oui majorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Oui to De Gaulle | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...copies of each map, should they desire. But of course Louis meets a girl, a girl who despite her great wealth and social advantage manages to show him sympathy because he is quite unlike anyone she has met before. Straining against their destinies--his to own a dozen sullen Manhattan towers by denial of himself, hers to marry the man she went to college to catch--they move to a furious climax where her hateful tease confronts his buried desire...and to their little death together...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

Grandma Moses must be itching to assemble the sullen-looking gang of leading abstract expressionists [Aug. 4] and blister their individualistic behinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Seriously wounded, Cockrell was taken to a hospital in a neighboring town. And within minutes of the shooting, nearly half of Boyd's townspeople began gathering in a sullen, jeering crowd outside the town hall. Cried one voice: "I hope Cockrell dies." Cried another: "We sure won't miss him. He can stay gone." With such sentiment clearly prevailing, Main Street could start preparing for the nightly roar of the hot-rodders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: I Hope He Dies | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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