Word: sullenness
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...piece together their fictional account of one of the young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
Guerard's war is fought in a small nameless country on the Continent, between the sullen, deteriorating armies of Western Allies and a "dictatorship." He tells most of his story through the narrative of an intelligence sergeant, sent up from a rear area for propaganda work in the small country, the sergeant's home. The sergeant strains to find some sense in the war's contradictory orders, its faked broadcasts, its leaflets and rumors. Eventually he crosses the enemy lines to the city of his birth and tries to start life ever again as a workman. A rumored germ-warfare...
Technically, spring was almost here, but the weather was sullen about it. Things warmed up a bit in the South, and at week's end the temperature got above freezing as far north as Boston. But New England's snow-buried sugar maples were not yet giving up their sap, and citizens of the Midwest were still recovering from blizzards and roaring winds...
...days later, Charleston County detectives picked up two sullen, slack-jawed young ex-convicts named LeRoy Parker and James Lawing in a highway diner near Charleston. It took an all-white jury only 4½ hours to find both guilty of murder. Because the jury recommended mercy, the convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment...
...midnight the Communist filibuster was resumed in a sullen atmosphere. But at week's end it looked as if the Reds had roared themselves out, and the government was ready to put through its anti-sabotage bill...