Word: sullenness
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Through this smouldering shambles the sullen Germans-orderly to the last-filed in columns to lay down their arms at collection points. Men with grey, stubbly beards crept out of cellars, subways and dugouts under white flags to surrender trudge silently out of the city under guard. Said Moscow: 507,000 Germans were killed or captured in the Battle of Berlin...
...stormy night session, Eden took the lead in telling off the Commissar. Sullen and embarrassed, Molotov fought back as best he could. Afterward, in a tone of pained restraint, Stettinius and Eden asked the Soviet Government to account immediately and fully for the whereabouts (and safety) of the "prominent Polish democratic leaders" under arrest, and halted the Big Three's negotiations for broadening the Warsaw Government. In effect the Yalta agreement to agree on a new government for Poland was suspended...
...Russian in San Francisco had been alternately sullen and affable, domineering and humble. Net reaction: what the hell? Then came the Russians' first formal, enlightening statements to the conference...
Blond, pudgy, slack-mouthed, sullen and mean-eyed, the sniper ranted about the disgrace of capture, said he would rather have died for his Führer. An American lieutenant, one of whose men had been killed by these snipers, handed him a .45 automatic with one cartridge in the chamber. The German looked at the G.I.s who had him covered with rifles. Then he put the pistol's heavy muzzle to the soft spot under his right ear and pulled the trigger. One of the G.I.s said: "First he surrenders and then he shoots himself...
Between the extremes of sullen impenitence and dumb docility, some German civilians seemed to want to make sense...