Word: sullenness
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...icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...
...tempo of Russian attack east of Berlin hung at a sullen, persistent roar. After a week's bitter fighting the Germans claimed that: 1) they still held the essential battlements of Küstrin, which Marshal Joseph Stalin had declared captured; 2) the battered keystones of their Oder River defense line still stood...
...Then the rest of the plan began to unfold. Cruisers and destroyers stood off the mouth of Manila Bay, battering Corregidor's guns into sullen silence. From Olongapo, recently captured naval station in Bataan's northwest corner, minesweepers dashed in under the threatening shadow of Corregidor and swept a channel into Mariveles harbor, at the southern tip of Bataan. Landing craft followed them. The first wave got off lightly; the next waves were less fortunate. But the Japs were disorganized. Within a few hours a junction was made near Lamao with the 1st Infantry Regiment. Bataan was sealed...
...hills of Athens echoed and re-echoed to the boom of bombs. Against a sullen sky loomed the Parthenon, monument to the ruin of Europe's most serene civilization. Across it flashed the shadows of strafing Spitfires. On the sides of the Acropolis and in the streets of Athens, where British soldiers and Greek Leftists stalked each other with Tommy guns, were the ruins of the hopes born of liberation. Splashes of Greek and British blood slowly clotted on the pavements. Athens, where the word democracy (from demos, the people) first achieved political meaning, was a battleground...
...Many "sullen Southerners" had stayed home. In eleven Southern states, the Republican vote had fallen off less than 50,000 votes since 1940, while Franklin Roosevelt had slipped 747,000. The popular vote for all the U.S. last week, including some soldier votes, stood at 53.4% for Roosevelt. His total civilian vote was about 52.5%-exactly the estimate of FORTUNE'S secret civilian ballot. FORTUNE'S other estimate of 53.6%, based on a series of questions, was about 1% high; Gallup, and Crossley about...