Word: sullenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English girl I met in Gorky Park. She told me that the Intourist guide on a tour bus from the Sevastopol Hotel where she was staying injected so much party rhetoric about American "hegemony," the CIA and so forth into her commentary that the passengers, swaying along sullen and uncomfortable, began shouting back at her from their seats. "She might have had the advantage of the microphone," the English girl said, her voice strong with the accents of West London, "but we had the numbers on her. People began shouting, 'Afghanistan! Get out of Afghanistan!' When the guide...
...always pick out the little boys and girls who play in junior tennis tournaments, the rascals with the headbands scrunched down over furrowed little brows. Sullen looks, knee braces and mumbles about "bum draws." These kids accept intense jealousy, incessant selfdoubt and occasional deceit as the basis of achievement right along with hard work and lots of orange juice. I know, because I was one once...
...Moonies blame the mayor for stirring up resentment against them, but there is widespread sullen suspicion in town about the church's plans. So far, however, no Moonies have tried to lure the young of Gloucester into their ranks, and no legal charges of any kind have been filed against the church and its operations...
...international nongovernmental tribunal held last year in Washington, D.C., to inquire into the status of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and East bloc countries, Soviet emigrants painted a different picture. They described a sullen labor force griping about low wages, unsanitary or hazardous working conditions and trade union leadership that executes management's dictates rather than representing employees. Drunkenness on the job and absenteeism were said to be chronic problems that often resulted in shoddy goods. Although workers were assigned quotas, there was little incentive to exceed them because once someone overproduced, everyone else was driven to work...
Many of the twists and turns indicated that the voters were not greatly enamored of any of the choices placed before them. Though-and maybe because -Carter and Reagan won big enough early enough to settle matters quickly, the campaign wound down in a mood of sullen discontent. Turnouts have dwindled to as low as 11% of the registered voters in the Michigan Republican primary two weeks ago, a shocking figure by any standards. "Uncommitted" polled a third of the votes in the Nevada Democratic primary last week. More than half the voters are telling pollsters that they wish there...