Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incentives of Cost. Having made many concessions to a sullen peasantry to get work out of them, the Soviet boss now finds them living too high on the hog-a trend that is even more marked in Communist Poland, where, one economist says, "the cities are working for the peasants...
Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop. 52 million), the Soviet-rigged German Democratic Republic, with its grey, ruin-strewn cities and 17½ million sullen, shabby subjects, looks a sorry state. It is a poor thing, but Khrushchev's own. He is determined to hang...
...unfortunately, hasn't won a game worth winning all year long. You can understand what that's done to Yale's feelings, the way she looks at herself. We learn that the churches in New Haven have been jammed, remorse frothing from a thousand lips. Liquor sales soared as sullen undergraduates sat limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release from...
With the third period, things didn't improve much. The team fell behind by one more touchdown and Sebbie became sullen and withdrawn...
...small, two-room office, the Bird allows himself but one flamboyance: two telephones-one green, one red. In accord with Hollywood tradition, the red phone has an unlisted number. On the rare occasions when it rings, the Bird stares at it in sullen suspicion. Has the town finally got his number? Then he relaxes. "No one knows that phone. Must be a wrong number," he says, and refuses to answer...