Word: sullenness
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...second time in 60 years Procter & Gamble, makers of Ivory Soap ("It Floats"), faced the embarrassing situation. A customer had sent in a bar that would not float (TIME, Oct. 2). Last week the baffled research staff performed a thorough autopsy on the sullen bar, came up from its powdered remains still baffled but with a lathery explanation: "Floating soap floats because it has been whipped about like a cake batter. In storage, this particular bar might have been com pressed and its tiny air pockets crushed...
...Last month in Madison, convening Progressives took a historic step: they balked at the foreign policy views of a LaFollette. While Bob LaFollette sat in sullen silence at the word "enforce," Progressive platform writers endorsed a world organization "to enforce a just and democratic peace." This was a significant reversal of the LaFollette-inspired America Firstish plank adopted in May, and followed the worst licking the Wisconsin electorate ever gave the Progressivce party in a primary...
...German tank forces had been beautifully feinted out of position by a preliminary thrust at Evrecy, southwest of Caen. Then the real blow was hurled east of Caen, as Allied tanks, vehicles, infantrymen moved forward. The battlefield was spectacular, wreathed in clouds of golden yellow dust, through which the sullen sun shone like a dull copper disc...
Terrified women, clutching their children, and sullen, bewildered men hurried to obey the harsh-faced Germans, who had tommy guns at their hips. Old people and invalids were rooted out, sent hobbling after the others...
...faces of enemy prisoners-despairing, angry, sullen or incredulous, betraying more clearly than in any previous film the certainty that from that day on, the struggle was hopeless...