Word: sullenness
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Burning Oil. Next morning a sullen mob, recruited from Baghdad's slums and with scarcely a student in it, gathered at one end of squalid, narrow Rashid Street, in the heart of the city. Reds raced up & down like cheerleaders, whipping up the mob; one agitator showed the approved method of handling opposition by leaping at a parked bus and slashing its tires with a huge knife...
...then circled high over Oahu for nearly three hours, directing the attack. He was later wounded at the Battle of Midway and spent the rest of the war as air operations officer at Japanese navy headquarters. At war's end, he went back to his farm near Osaka, sullen and bitter over Japan's defeat...
...Kenya desert-miles & miles of sunbaked lava crumbling like broken biscuit. With him, under guard, went most of the staff of K.A.U. What Next? Governor Baring's anti-Mau Mau drive seemed at first sight to be working-though the government freely admitted that the Kikuyu tribe remains "sullen and unpleasant." Yet few Kenyans believe that force alone will stamp out the Mau Mau. In the British House of Commons, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told M.P.s that Mau Mau terrorism is "carefully planned, centrally directed, and its object is to destroy all authority . . ." Lyttelton added that he was leaving...
...shout "Open the back shutter" instead of "Kill the ump," but the little black box will reply by disgorging several feet of film clearly indicating that everybody is wrong and it is right. It will go straight on calling them with accuracy, and the crowds will slowly lapse into sullen silence as the little machines take over the game...
...hand of the Machine . . . a sullen population of robots chained to the belt line, ridden by fear, bullied by threats and propaganda, and cozened by the vulgar mass arts and mechanical gadgets . . . a police state, ruled by Finance Capital through venal, illiterate political bosses, the FBI, and the generals, under the form of a sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production...