Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hills of Athens echoed and re-echoed to the boom of bombs. Against a sullen sky loomed the Parthenon, monument to the ruin of Europe's most serene civilization. Across it flashed the shadows of strafing Spitfires. On the sides of the Acropolis and in the streets of Athens, where British soldiers and Greek Leftists stalked each other with Tommy guns, were the ruins of the hopes born of liberation. Splashes of Greek and British blood slowly clotted on the pavements. Athens, where the word democracy (from demos, the people) first achieved political meaning, was a battleground...
...Many "sullen Southerners" had stayed home. In eleven Southern states, the Republican vote had fallen off less than 50,000 votes since 1940, while Franklin Roosevelt had slipped 747,000. The popular vote for all the U.S. last week, including some soldier votes, stood at 53.4% for Roosevelt. His total civilian vote was about 52.5%-exactly the estimate of FORTUNE'S secret civilian ballot. FORTUNE'S other estimate of 53.6%, based on a series of questions, was about 1% high; Gallup, and Crossley about...
...second time in 60 years Procter & Gamble, makers of Ivory Soap ("It Floats"), faced the embarrassing situation. A customer had sent in a bar that would not float (TIME, Oct. 2). Last week the baffled research staff performed a thorough autopsy on the sullen bar, came up from its powdered remains still baffled but with a lathery explanation: "Floating soap floats because it has been whipped about like a cake batter. In storage, this particular bar might have been com pressed and its tiny air pockets crushed...
...Last month in Madison, convening Progressives took a historic step: they balked at the foreign policy views of a LaFollette. While Bob LaFollette sat in sullen silence at the word "enforce," Progressive platform writers endorsed a world organization "to enforce a just and democratic peace." This was a significant reversal of the LaFollette-inspired America Firstish plank adopted in May, and followed the worst licking the Wisconsin electorate ever gave the Progressivce party in a primary...
...German tank forces had been beautifully feinted out of position by a preliminary thrust at Evrecy, southwest of Caen. Then the real blow was hurled east of Caen, as Allied tanks, vehicles, infantrymen moved forward. The battlefield was spectacular, wreathed in clouds of golden yellow dust, through which the sullen sun shone like a dull copper disc...