Word: sullenness
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...Sullen but Resigned. Liberals, Socialists and leftist republicans were sullen but resigned. Communists, who were already fighting in the north, were verbally ferocious, but nonviolent. The Government charged that Communist-led guerrillas in the north were being armed from Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria, and that foreign military units were operating on Greek soil. Premier Tsaldaris called it war. The British said they would intervene only at the Government's request -but they shipped in more troops from Egypt and Palestine...
...wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...
...Craig Rice from California to worry over the accused. Readers jumped aboard with letters full of theories, shudders, lectures on psychology, morals and English usage. While psychiatrists candled the accused's head, the city focused on its ugly old Cook County jail. There in cell No. 59, husky, sullen, 17-year-old William Heirens sat with his head in his hands...
...candidates appeared on the ballots. German-trained political police pounced on opposition party headquarters, took recalcitrants to jail, snapped muzzles back on newspapers. 'Army officers who had enrolled in M.U.D. were demoted; "disloyal" students were flunked. Fear replaced brief hope as the country slipped lack into bitter, sullen acquiescence, with little chance that Salazar would ever make another gesture toward keeping his old promise that his dictatorship was merely a "transition." Salazar, at 57, had now become dictator for life, unless revolt unseated...
Some time later, Kravchenko got a glimpse of the "horrors of collectivization." In one village, "guarded by GPU soldiers with drawn revolvers, stood about twenty peasants. . . . A few of them were weeping. The others stood there sullen, resigned, hopeless. So this was 'liquidation of the kulaks as a class'! A lot of simple peasants being torn from their native soil, stripped of all their worldly belongings...