Word: sullenness
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JESSE OWENS RETURNS TO BERLIN (Sports Network). Recollection of the dramatic 1936 Olympics and its sullen host Hitler, as U.S. Negro Trackman Owens wins four gold medals...
...miracles; we toyed with shock techniques designed to persuade students that classroom thinking could be related to their experience. One of the first essays assigned asked students to answer the question, 'If God had not approved of drinking, why did he make alcohol?" The response varied from enthusiastic to sullen. Some tutees never showed up after the first meeting...
...Hollywood Palladium, home of Lawrence Welk's champagne music, Dr. Max Rafferty had a few remarks for 1,000 enthusiastic supporters. " Today," he said, "the hydraheaded enemy wears different disguises: the sick mask of obscenity, the wild and raving false face of drug addiction; the sullen mask of subversion; the devilish domino of lawlessness. And so the great wheel of time has come again full circle in our day, and the mantle of our fathers has fallen to our shoulders...
...walked through the camp, looking around, smiling at people, greeting people, children run around your legs as children will anyplace in the world, having great fun. Even the women might smile back when you greet them. However, from the men, regardless what their age was, we got a very sullen stare in response...
...Cabinet member resigned-Lord Longford, leader of the House of Lords. The rest of the Cabinet, including some who had been expected to leave, stayed on with the justification that no single Cabinet department had been singled out to bear the brunt of austerity. But it was a sullen Commons that gave Wilson, drained by two days of debate, his vote of confidence. The vote was 304 to 9, with all the Tories and the 26 breakaway Laborites abstaining...