Word: sullenness
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...most of his acquaintances around Tucson, Charles Schmid Jr., 23, seemed more sick than sinister. A compulsive blabbermouth who prated indefatigably of his sexual and fistic derring-do, the squat (5 ft. 3 in.), sullen-faced high school dropout dyed his hair black, caked his face with makeup, and stuffed so much wadding in his boots to make him look taller that he could hardly walk. Yet among the odd collection of restless, thrill-hungry teen-agers who hang out in the garish juke joints and drive-ins along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard (TIME, Nov. 26), swart, blue...
...lives; one dead worker was left hanging on a fence. At Forkville, Joe Bullock, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Mississippi's Fourth District, was killed when his car was blown off the road. Finally, after a parting punch at Pea Ridge, the twister petered out under the sullen, sultry cumulonimbus that had spawned it. At week's end, with the aroma of pine tar from uprooted trees still heavy in the air, and rescuers still digging through the wreckage for more victims, the toll had reached 61 dead, 497 injured, $12 million in damage...
With the army sullen and the students enraged, Sukarno's comeback might prove a short...
...sullen tropical sun beat down on Manila's Luneta Park, searing the faces of 200,000 Filipinos and a perspiring U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey. It glinted off the wave crests of Manila Bay and turned the green finger of Bataan into a quivering blur. U.S.-built jets of the Philippine Air Force bellowed past at palm-top level as President Ferdinand Marcos rose to deliver his inaugural address. The speech was as scorching as the heat...
Author Mackay, a 21-year-old British girl who shares a drab walk-up over a London launderette with her 23-year-old draftsman husband, an infant daughter, her mother, a dog and three sullen cats is the most precocious and prolific ornament in a new British literary clique that might be called the Sad Young Girls. Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad-and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it. Author Mackay's hero...