Word: sullenness
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...fact that we have been in a position to contribute . . . arms and money does not entitle us to preach or threaten . . . We want not sullen obedience, but friendly cooperation from our allies . . . We want no satellites; we want companions in arms ... I hope I have misread the signs of the revival of the discredited 'dollar diplomacy' . . . Ours must be the role of the good neighbor, the good partner, the good friend-never the big bully...
...defense, each scratches his soul for a wartime philosophy. "It's the seventh game in the World Series," the cattleman sighs, "and this time, we're the home team." Amid the atomic destruction, there is also a seamy romance between a cynical but brave newspaperman, Gerald Mohr, and a sullen barfly, Peggic Castle...
...sullen olive groves and dwarf wheat fields around San Severo, on the spur of the Italian boot, have long bred Communists. Working for as little as 64? a day on land they could never buy, the San Severini were eager listeners to Communist organizers, who promised "The land will be given to you when Palmiro [Togliatti] is Premier of Italy...
Shoehorns & Scimitars. At the end of the two days of rioting, some 3,000 Arabs were rounded up in the same union hall where the trouble began. As the police forced them into a sullen huddle, the hall was filled with the clatter of weapons-clasp knives, ice picks, scimitars, poniards, shoehorns, hatchets, fire tongs and brass knuckles-falling to the floor. Net score after two troubled days: 1,000 arrests; 100 or more Arab dead, 60 known wounded and probably many more cared for by their people; five European civilians dead and 13 wounded; three soldiers dead...
...Exception. In its first week of public hearings, the Crime Commission got a good look at four live I.L.A. operators. Big Frank Russo, a pier boss, admitted that he had received $1,400-plus an unspecified amount of "vacation money." Sullen, hulking Fred Marino testified that he was elected shop steward of local 327, denied earlier testimony that he had demanded that the Luckenbach Lines bar all cops and FBI agents from his pier. Anthony Delmar, Brooklyn pier boss, was sworn in while holding up his left hand, contributed little that was either sinister or helpful. Jerry Anastasio...