Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowery knew better than that. There was a long, sullen silence. Then someone said: "Scram, jerk...
Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...
...Sullen but Resigned. Liberals, Socialists and leftist republicans were sullen but resigned. Communists, who were already fighting in the north, were verbally ferocious, but nonviolent. The Government charged that Communist-led guerrillas in the north were being armed from Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria, and that foreign military units were operating on Greek soil. Premier Tsaldaris called it war. The British said they would intervene only at the Government's request -but they shipped in more troops from Egypt and Palestine...
...wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...
...Craig Rice from California to worry over the accused. Readers jumped aboard with letters full of theories, shudders, lectures on psychology, morals and English usage. While psychiatrists candled the accused's head, the city focused on its ugly old Cook County jail. There in cell No. 59, husky, sullen, 17-year-old William Heirens sat with his head in his hands...