Word: sullenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pages and include 155,000 words. The American Heritage publishers created an air of difference by plugging their usage panel, the glossary and the liberal use of illustrations. Booksellers were courted with personal sales calls and arresting ads in book journals. One ad showed a clutch of sullen teen-agers under the headline: "You don't buy your old man's ideas. Why buy your old man's dictionary?" By publication date, orders stood...
Already the communes are in sullen -and occasionally violent-conflict with the Taosenos. The prospect of a spring and summer invasion of new hippies has prompted local residents to form vigilante groups. Besides, an abnormally light winter snowfall ensures water shortages for the summer. Commune crops will be scarce. "If those kids show up here this summer," says one member of a commune in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, "we'll be the straights. We'll throw them...
...three buses carrying 32 black pupils pulled up in front of Lamar High School, a sullen group of 125 white men and women suddenly went wild. The 75 surprised state troopers on hand tried desperately to protect the children, as screaming whites began smashing the bus windows with ax handles, bricks, heavy chains and sharpened screwdrivers. They repeatedly tried to get at the youngsters who were cowering inside. The student driver of one bus, Henry Alford, 18, struggled to hold the door closed. "Most of the kids were girls, and they were scared and crying," Alford said. "The boys made...
Good Job. Tallulah and Wyche make a volatile mixture, but surprisingly, there has been no explosion. Whites have accepted their new police chief with sullen oaution. From some whites, he is even beginning to win a grudging respect. Despite his flamboyance, Wyche has moved discreetly. He has equalized his force at six blacks and six whites, besides himself, and intends to maintain a balance. Integrated pairs usually man patrol cars. "Now blacks and whites make arrests together, so there's no favoritism," he says, puffing on one of his ever-present Roi-Tan cigars. Wyche and his black cops...
...Ronald Pickup) pursues Dorinda (Sheila Reid) with lofty ardor. They are a fluttery pair, brimming with sentiment and much given to pledges of undying affection and confessional honesty. The masquerading servant, Archer (Robert Stephens), has the cool, calculating charm of an accomplished womanizer. The woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase quickens, the ladies profess virtues which they could scarcely wish to possess. The feint and parry of amour ends well...