Word: sullenness
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When Lewis walked out of A.F. of L., Murray followed. Year and a half ago, at Lewis' tearful pleading, Murray succeeded Old John as C.I.O. president. But no sentimental memories showed last week in the grey, sullen face of John Lewis...
...Questura and Mussolini's Informatori Privati del Duce ruthlessly tracked down secret agents and saboteurs. But they were handicapped by a wartime shortage of castor oil and by the people's sullen resentment. Trains, particularly those carrying German troops, were wrecked more often than authorities admitted. The Germans were everywhere, openly bragging that Italy was under their full control. But German officers and their women were stoned in Sicily...
...people of this nation are following the leadership (such as is provided for them) in the crisis as slavishly as any medieval chain gang. Thank your stars if your castigation doesn't produce the kind of sullen rancor which could one day destroy you. What this nation needs right now in these tax-ridden days is a pat on the back-not a slap on the mouth with the back of an ungrateful, irresponsible, alphabetical hand...
...Germans were so scared that they jumped right into the sea. The others were just sullen; all they would say was that the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, was due to sink within the half-hour...
These spectators are a sultry, mercifully drawn set: a restive wife, her sullen husband; his aged, beak-nosed, naïvé father, dreaming of youth in India; his delicate old aunt, cherishing a crucifix between her bony hands; an assortment of eligible neighbors. The pageant they have come to see is a half-talented, half-parodied hodgepodge which in actual performance would have been sad, silly, and typically British, but which, in Mrs. Woolf's hairline contexts, is moving...