Word: sullenness
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Safely away from police, all now swore that Melendes, a sullen prisoner, had been beaten unmercifully by police, with clubs, baseball bats. Said Brinkley: "They began beating him about 2 a.m. and kept it up until...
...British and Americans, called "Good morning" in English. Some of the men saluted-not the Fascist salute, palm out, but the old-style salute, edge of hand against the forehead. But in some towns the old, wrinkled women in the doorways and the men and the young girls were sullen. Their towns had been bombed before the ground forces arrived...
After interviewing his way through Dixie, Collier's Politics Editor Walter Davenport last month assured his 3,000,000-odd readers that the sullen South was anti-Roosevelt. He reported that the South itches: 1) to reject a Fourth Term, 2) to vote for any Democrat but Roosevelt, 3) to vote Republican even, as a last resort...
Between them lies a 14-ft. width of no man's land. Within the wire, the POWs wait through their days: sullen, unreconstructed Nazis, cheerful Italians. Among the guests: several Italian generals...
...executive officer had become their commander. He marched first in line on their daily turns around the quarterdeck. Whatever the leader did, the rest did. When they halted in the lee of a gun shelter to light cigarets, he got the first match. Yesterday he had been sullen and silent. Today he spoke English...