Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates appeared on the ballots. German-trained political police pounced on opposition party headquarters, took recalcitrants to jail, snapped muzzles back on newspapers. 'Army officers who had enrolled in M.U.D. were demoted; "disloyal" students were flunked. Fear replaced brief hope as the country slipped lack into bitter, sullen acquiescence, with little chance that Salazar would ever make another gesture toward keeping his old promise that his dictatorship was merely a "transition." Salazar, at 57, had now become dictator for life, unless revolt unseated...
Some time later, Kravchenko got a glimpse of the "horrors of collectivization." In one village, "guarded by GPU soldiers with drawn revolvers, stood about twenty peasants. . . . A few of them were weeping. The others stood there sullen, resigned, hopeless. So this was 'liquidation of the kulaks as a class'! A lot of simple peasants being torn from their native soil, stripped of all their worldly belongings...
...travelers were 336 Japanese men, women & children-diplomats, businessmen and newspapermen returning home with their families from foreign posts. From the decks of the rusty old Tsukushi Mam, they gazed glumly at the panorama of defeat. On the pier was a delegation of U.S. Eighth Army personnel. As the sullen repatriates debarked, they were hustled to the customs shed. There, teams of doctors, officers and G.I.s (for the men) and nurses, WACs and female Nisei (for the women) stripped them, ripped their clothing open at the seams, paraded them before fluoroscopes...
After four years of defeat, imprisonment and abuse, the Dutch in Indonesia are morose, sullen and apparently unable to cope with the vigorous native independence movement. Many would agree with the young naval lieutenant who bitterly opined: "Who won the war I can't say. But I can tell you who lost...
...proposal was thrashed out behind closed doors, while outside the sprawling Ford plant sullen strikers of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers Union stomped into their fourth month of picket duty. They were the barometer of the union's holding power. Strikers in need got no cash from the union; they had to join the picket line for four hours a day to get food chits ($3 weekly for a single man, $5 for a couple, $13 for each child...