Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That's all I didn't see this week. Next week I'll finish the story, and maybe it will be less sullen, because I'm going down there with a telescope, and so help me God, if I don't see something then, I'll become a sports writer...
High Vs. Autumn was also the time for county fairs-for merry-go-round music, spun sugar, and the sight of prize cakes, prize cattle and sullen hootchy-cootchy dancers. Millions of men were digging out red hats, boots and boxes of shells and exchanging speculative glances with suddenly excited bird dogs. Coon hunters were already going out at night, tin lanterns in hand, in Iowa and Connecticut. There would be other game soon-pheasants were fat, honkers were winging south in high Vs and deer were beginning their migration from high country...
Virginia received Henry Wallace in sullen silence. State authorities had ducked the segregation issue by decreeing that the Wallace gatherings were "private parties," to which the state segregation law does not apply. No bands turned out, no crowds gathered to watch his progress. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's John Chabot Smith: "Mr. Wallace's movements in Virginia had something of the eerie quality of an old-fashioned silent movie in a theater without a piano player...
...Sullen Vacancy. Wallace has persuaded himself that only Wallace is honest; that all his enemies are wrong and full of deceit. Perhaps only a dishonest man could think himself so completely honest...
Confronted by proof of his own inaccuracies, as he was in a humiliating press conference at Philadelphia (TIME, Aug. 2), Wallace sags and retreats behind a suddenly sullen vacancy. His carefully manufactured misconception of foreign affairs has led him into statements both dangerous and ludicrous. On a trip to Europe before a British audience he assailed his own nation in these words: "America's main objective was a quick victory followed by a quick return to normalcy. It was the normalcy of selfishness, nationalism and power politics." He blamed U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and U.S. policy for the Communist...