Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode through the bedlam of the Place de la Concorde, staring with frigid disapproval at the hysterical, joy-drunk mobs, who threatened to engulf him. His heart and his tongue alike were prophetically bitter: the war, though mercifully over, had not been won. Into sullen, unmolested Germany marched a U.S. Army of Occupation. Pershing saw a future that wishful, gentler men could...
...rebellion and civil war, Franco could see little enough to give him comfort or joy. After months of slow disintegration, Spanish affairs were brought into sharp focus. Out of Spain last week came the clearest picture yet of a tottering regime. Franco's country, unreconstructed, is hungry, sullen, restive. He has not a strong friend abroad, and precious few at home. Of the two powerful allies who forged his victory, Italy lies prostrate, the battleground of foreign armies; Germany, no longer able to do him any real good, still has the means to work him grievous harm...
...With pomp and prayer and the services of no priests, the body of Boris III was borne from Alexander Nevski Cathedral into Sofia's streets. Behind a cordon of troops the people watched, sullen and restrained, as the funeral cortege rolled...
...Most troublesome small-fry employer to defy WLB has been Brooklyn's Bernard Moran, owner of the Atlantic Basin Iron Works (TIME, July 26). For three months, tough, sullen Bernard Moran had stubbornly resisted WLB's order to sign a union security contract (maintenance-of-membership) with the C.I.O. Marine & Shipbuilding Workers Union. Last week, after a hearing at which doughy Bernard Moran breathed fire and brimstone, WLB ordered his yard seized by the Government...
...Fred William Thomas, 44, sullen-eyed obstetrician furnished the "Countess" with prescriptions for the ingredients of invisible ink, says FBI. Lethargic (except when expounding Hitler's New Order) Dr. Thomas once spent a year in Ham burg as an exchange surgeon. He denied being...