Word: sullenness
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Willkie told them off, votes or no votes. Said he, catcalling had taken the place of honest thinking in Germany and Italy before democratic government was lost there. Platform politicos, ringsiders clapped politely. The crowd stayed sullen...
...Frank Conley's moment. The tough, triangular-faced hillbilly with a term in the Federal penitentiary behind him was more resourceful and ruthless than the mass of sullen, stupefied convicts. He jumped Guard Wade, slashed with his knife, wounded him. The new guard, Claude Martin, still sitting down, raised his gun. He never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone...
...late for the Council meeting, the Transylvanian Peasant Party leader, onetime Premier Juliu Maniu, turned up in Bucharest that morning, protesting bitterly. As news filtered out during the day to a shocked and sullen Rumania, protests grew ominous and muttering crowds of Bucharest citizens gathered outside the Palace. Even Iron Guardists were disillusioned. But to King Carol and a majority of his Councilors the choice was brutally simple: they could lose half of Transylvania, or they could lose Rumania...
...Josef Bürckel who not only engineered the Anschluss of the Saar, but also originated the Nazi annexation formula so successfully employed in Austria. A hefty, beetle-browed Rhinelander dubbed the "Red Gauleiter'' because he has constantly stressed Socialism more than Nationalism, Bürckel informed sullen Lorraine peasants last week that the "Führer principle" had been introduced along with a "new order which is to shape and lead the people of Lorraine, who for years did not know where they belonged...
Five years ago a chunky, stoop-shouldered Texan named Raymond Huff, superintendent of schools in Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,171), stood musing at a window of the town's dilapidated high school. Clayton was a dispiriting sight. Along its dusty, sun-baked main street lounged sullen, idle men. Out of sight, but probably up to no good, were Clayton's tattered small fry, some of them without enough clothes to go to school. Raymond Huff squared his shoulders and went to WPA and NYA with a scheme. He got WPA to agree to help him build school...