Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Authoress Vance saves Franchise from making a decision. It is Edouard who decides that it is in his interest to stop being sentimental and to turn the whole family over to the German authorities. And it is sullen, proletarian Maurice who pleads guilty, so that Blaise and Lover Simon may escape and the hostages go free...
...Russia. They believe that Germany is their bulwark against Communist doctrine and Russian post-war political influence. Both are increasingly dependent on Germany for trade. From the U.S. Portugal has received slimmer & slimmer shipments of oil, tobacco, fertilizer and foodstuff. Spain has been getting shiploads of wheat for her sullen peons and rickety children...
...night the invasion coast drops into sullen, soundless darkness. Below the earth, behind great blackout curtains, men still work with concrete and steel. But the hard-eyed German gunners behind the barbed wire on the beaches, the spectacled technicians at the radio detectors on the cliffs, no longer feel the spirit of Todt, the fortress builder. At night-almost every night-there is fighting to be done, and any night may bring the first crashing thrust of invasion. As soldiers always do, men on the late watches talk of home, of furloughs and women, of comrades on other fields...
...seen except the hard grey walls of the Capitol, bright and solid in the clear, pale noonday sun. . . . Yet the face of every individual, the faces of all those huddled over the radios, were turned directly toward the towering pillars of the Capitol. There was a churchlike hush, a sullen, angry silence. . . . What was the silence of shock last night, today was the cold, determined hatred of an outraged people. There was something of the tension of a lynching mob, a mob where there are no masks, where each individual is happy to be identified with the purpose...
Built like a barge, sullen-faced and stormy-eyed, McGuinness was just the man for dangerous work in World War II. The government commissioned him to run cargoes of wood pulp and vital necessities from Sweden under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled...