Word: sullenness
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Trying to whip the tired, sullen masses into greater production, the Communist regime now allows farmers to have their own small plots of land, raise chickens and pigs privately in addition to their work in the production brigades, and sell their produce in the towns and keep the profits. This has promoted a black market in edibles that flow to special luxury restaurants, where highly paid government officials can dine without ration cards. But the limited "free market" produces its own social problems; it not only encourages conspicuous luxury buying by a privileged few in full view of the hungry...
...Communists' East German wall was virtually complete. Behind it, Red Boss Walter Ulbricht could whip his sullen millions into line without fear of an other mass exodus. But barricading Berlin was just the first surprise Old Spitzbart (pointed beard) had in mind for the West. Last week, pointedly, arrogantly, he began to reach for more, and as a result, on the tense and anxious Berlin frontier more and more armed men faced each other with weapons at the ready...
...unload passengers or baggage." Aboard the jet the passengers sat in shocked silence as a hostess instructed them to stay in their seats: "We may be flying on to Havana." Cody Bearden lounged in the doorway of the cabin, casually swinging his .45 revolver and keeping a sullen eye on the frightened passengers. Then a pregnant female passenger seemed to be approaching hysteria about her plight, and Leon Bearden apparently thought he could see an uncontrollable situation in the making. He recruited four passengers to remain as voluntary hostages, and allowed the other passengers to leave. One among the four...
...whom Paris critics hailed for his spectacular leaps in the famous Bluebird pas de deux in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. But word had spread through the dance company that Nureev intended to defect, and when the dancers arrived at Le Bourget Airport for departure to London, Nureev, sullen and tense, was accompanied by two Russian strong-arm men, euphemistically described later as "unofficial" members of the company. "I won't go!" he screamed. The gorillas grabbed him. But Nureev broke away and raced for the airport bar, screaming "Protect me! Protect me!" to airport police. The police took...
Millions of other South Africans-the English-speaking whites, the blacks, the coloreds and the Indians-could only watch in bitter resignation or sullen silence. In English-speaking Natal, clumps of whites gathered at cocktail parties to defiantly toast the Queen. In Port Elizabeth, an anonymous artist painted a huge Union Jack on the street. Liberals pointed out that only a bare majority of the white population (the only ones allowed to vote) had voted for the republic-850,458 people out of South Africa's total 15,841,128 population...