Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between them lies a 14-ft. width of no man's land. Within the wire, the POWs wait through their days: sullen, unreconstructed Nazis, cheerful Italians. Among the guests: several Italian generals...
...executive officer had become their commander. He marched first in line on their daily turns around the quarterdeck. Whatever the leader did, the rest did. When they halted in the lee of a gun shelter to light cigarets, he got the first match. Yesterday he had been sullen and silent. Today he spoke English...
...late, great Percy Hammond intoned: "Later in the day I shall probably meet an acquaintance and he will ask me, as is the practice of a reviewer's acquaintances, what, if anything, I think of Abie's Irish Rose. Whereupon I shall oppress him with a sullen silence and pass upon my gloomy ways...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, a chubby little man with twinkling eyes, looked down from the plane's windows on to the red & gold of Spanish soil, stretching below like a scarred and, crisscrossed piece of hide. From the air the land looked peaceful. But its people were sullen, impoverished, embittered, under a Fascist dictatorship which had claimed that the Spanish Civil War was a crusade for the Roman Catholic Church...
...crew that takes off from San Francisco in the Mary Ann is exquisitely ordinary. Among them are lanky, quiet Pilot Captain Quincannon (John Ridgely), who takes along one of his baby's dolls for good luck; moonfaced, wisecracking Waist Gunner Weinberg (George Tobias); tough, sullen Rear Gunner Winocki (John Garfield), who broods bitterly because he was washed out as a pilot. Crew chief, mechanic and handy man is sentimental old Sergeant Pop White (Harry Carey), who is corny and just right...