Word: sullenness
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...With pomp and prayer and the services of no priests, the body of Boris III was borne from Alexander Nevski Cathedral into Sofia's streets. Behind a cordon of troops the people watched, sullen and restrained, as the funeral cortege rolled...
...Most troublesome small-fry employer to defy WLB has been Brooklyn's Bernard Moran, owner of the Atlantic Basin Iron Works (TIME, July 26). For three months, tough, sullen Bernard Moran had stubbornly resisted WLB's order to sign a union security contract (maintenance-of-membership) with the C.I.O. Marine & Shipbuilding Workers Union. Last week, after a hearing at which doughy Bernard Moran breathed fire and brimstone, WLB ordered his yard seized by the Government...
...Fred William Thomas, 44, sullen-eyed obstetrician furnished the "Countess" with prescriptions for the ingredients of invisible ink, says FBI. Lethargic (except when expounding Hitler's New Order) Dr. Thomas once spent a year in Ham burg as an exchange surgeon. He denied being...
...Sullen Sabotage. Meanwhile the prisoners constantly meditated revolt. A "Central Committee" of three met secretly, formulated plans for outwitting the Nazis. They composed striking slogans. As the prisoners labored in Stettin's factories, they muttered loud enough to be heard by the German workers: "For every prisoner compelled to slave for Germany, there will be one German corpse in the plains of Russia." They slowed down the work as much as they dared...
...people turned frustrated and sullen under the new repression. Those of their leaders who had not been seized by the Badoglio police in the first days of open jubilation over Mussolini's fall went underground again. Now by clandestine press and radio they declared civil war: "Italy arise! . . . Insorgere (revolt)! . . . The Government of Badoglio is Fascism without Mussolini." In the popular front against Italy's traditional rulers-the militarists, the aristocracy and the clerics-stood five parties: ^ Socialists, the biggest group, their ranks reformed three years...