Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something went wrong with Joe and his vision. In spite of his nightly visitation, he was still just a shabby little boy in a shapeless sweater. He grew sullen and peevish. When photographers took his picture he sometimes grinned and postured, but sometimes he kicked them in the shins or tried to tear up their film. He was not always kind to the people, ill or maimed, who sought his help; once he shouted to a roomful of them: "Get out of here...
...workers, in no mood to modify their demands for a closed shop and a dues checkoff, all this was a signal to prepare for a fight. Picket lines at each of the sprawling plant's 17 gates grew longer, thicker, more sullen. On Monday, 8,500 additional workers-from Windsor's Chrysler, Gar Wood, Kelsey Wheel and some 20 other smaller plants, walked out in sympathy. Pickets began erecting street barricades (hundreds of autos, bumper to jumper...
Democracy, Schlesinger holds, is a condition of tension, in which neither side has a permanent advantage. This theory of tension distinguishes Historian Schlesinger's from Revolutionist Karl Marx's theory of class struggle, which ends each bout in a sullen victory for one side or the other, or "in the common ruin of the contending classes...
Clean Sheets. Many who had fought the Japs went ashore tense with the fear of treachery or the expectation of sullen resentment. But it was like a veteran's dream of victory...
...sullen silence he listened while Special Prosecutor Annaeus SchjÖdt read the charge-a catalog of shame reaching to high treason and murder...