Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sullen Sabotage. Meanwhile the prisoners constantly meditated revolt. A "Central Committee" of three met secretly, formulated plans for outwitting the Nazis. They composed striking slogans. As the prisoners labored in Stettin's factories, they muttered loud enough to be heard by the German workers: "For every prisoner compelled to slave for Germany, there will be one German corpse in the plains of Russia." They slowed down the work as much as they dared...
Safely away from police, all now swore that Melendes, a sullen prisoner, had been beaten unmercifully by police, with clubs, baseball bats. Said Brinkley: "They began beating him about 2 a.m. and kept it up until...
...people turned frustrated and sullen under the new repression. Those of their leaders who had not been seized by the Badoglio police in the first days of open jubilation over Mussolini's fall went underground again. Now by clandestine press and radio they declared civil war: "Italy arise! . . . Insorgere (revolt)! . . . The Government of Badoglio is Fascism without Mussolini." In the popular front against Italy's traditional rulers-the militarists, the aristocracy and the clerics-stood five parties: ^ Socialists, the biggest group, their ranks reformed three years...
...British and Americans, called "Good morning" in English. Some of the men saluted-not the Fascist salute, palm out, but the old-style salute, edge of hand against the forehead. But in some towns the old, wrinkled women in the doorways and the men and the young girls were sullen. Their towns had been bombed before the ground forces arrived...
After interviewing his way through Dixie, Collier's Politics Editor Walter Davenport last month assured his 3,000,000-odd readers that the sullen South was anti-Roosevelt. He reported that the South itches: 1) to reject a Fourth Term, 2) to vote for any Democrat but Roosevelt, 3) to vote Republican even, as a last resort...