Word: sullenness
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...Russia. They believe that Germany is their bulwark against Communist doctrine and Russian post-war political influence. Both are increasingly dependent on Germany for trade. From the U.S. Portugal has received slimmer & slimmer shipments of oil, tobacco, fertilizer and foodstuff. Spain has been getting shiploads of wheat for her sullen peons and rickety children...
...seen except the hard grey walls of the Capitol, bright and solid in the clear, pale noonday sun. . . . Yet the face of every individual, the faces of all those huddled over the radios, were turned directly toward the towering pillars of the Capitol. There was a churchlike hush, a sullen, angry silence. . . . What was the silence of shock last night, today was the cold, determined hatred of an outraged people. There was something of the tension of a lynching mob, a mob where there are no masks, where each individual is happy to be identified with the purpose...
Built like a barge, sullen-faced and stormy-eyed, McGuinness was just the man for dangerous work in World War II. The government commissioned him to run cargoes of wood pulp and vital necessities from Sweden under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled...
Gandhi added: "I do not want to help the Japs, even in order to free India. India, during the past 50 years' struggle for freedom, has learned not to bow to any foreign power. The moment my demands are complied with, India, instead of being sullen, becomes an ally. Remember, I am more interested than the British in keeping the Japs out. For Britain, defeat in Indian waters may mean only the loss of India, but if Japan wins, India loses everything...
...cortege, with all the outward signs of oldtime Nazi arrogance, stalked through Prague streets lined with sullen Czech workers. Then the body was shipped to Berlin for a princely funeral ordered by Adolf Hitler. What happened to Heydrich's soul, no one knew...