Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...None of our problems," he warned, "can compare in gravity with the spread of aftosa among the cattle." Last fortnight, the joint U.S.-Mexican commission directing the anti-aftosa campaign reported that it would last from one to five years, depending on the cooperation of the Mexican people. But sullen unrest against the slaughter of diseased cattle is spreading among farmers, and cooperation may be hard...
Along the narrow back roads of western British Columbia's Kootenay country marched sullen bands. Sometimes they halted, clustered together, chanted Russian hymns. They were Doukhobors of the Sons of Freedom sect. Wherever they went, residents braced themselves for trouble. The Sons of Freedom were on a house-burning rampage...
...first, there was bitter squabbling among the school's 100 students. Dutchmen and Danes balked at the idea of sharing rooms with Austrians and Germans. The teachers expected a certain sullen resistance to lectures on U.S. life and letters (chiefly Emerson and Hawthorne, Henry James and Howells, Hemingway and O'Neill), but the students, mostly teachers themselves, were eager to learn. They spent the mornings avidly taking notes at lectures. They spent the afternoons questioning and discussing at seminars. In the evenings, they gathered in the castle garden for reading and conversation...
...Council chairman, Poland's Oscar Lange, called for the vote that really counted-the noes on the U.S. motion as a whole. Quickly he shot up his own hand. Then Russia's sullen Andrei Gromyko raised his. Thus, for the eleventh time in the short history of the United Nations, Russia had used the veto. The Balkan peace watch was dead...
...grisly news of the eucalyptus grove quickly spread through a land which had learned to expect an eye for an eye. Panicky Jews prepared to flee from Natanya. British troops grew sullen, angry, dangerous. That night, in Tel Aviv, British soldiers on foot and in armored cars lashed out in an unsoldierly demonstration. They smashed windows, beat Jews, fired Sten guns into a crowded bus. Five Jews were killed, 15 wounded. Next day, at the funeral for the five dead, mourners and police clashed again. The toll: 33 Jews injured. Said one resident of Natanya: "This cancels...