Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight the Communist filibuster was resumed in a sullen atmosphere. But at week's end it looked as if the Reds had roared themselves out, and the government was ready to put through its anti-sabotage bill...
...between the U.S. and Bulgaria had gone from merely chilly to bitterly cold. In Sofia, U.S. Minister Donald Heath was harassed and insulted by Bulgarian officials. They demanded his recall. When Washington protested, it got only smiling evasions from Bulgarian Chargé d'Affaires Peter Voutov in Washington, sullen silence from Sofia. Last week, his patience exhausted, Secretary of State Dean Acheson broke off diplomatic relations with Russia's Balkan satellite (which was a Nazi satellite before that...
Last week the golden curtain at Man hattan's Metropolitan Opera House went up on Khovanchina for the first time. As the gloomy drama rolled along, at the lumbering pace of a sullen rhinoceros, the audience was sometimes confused by the Russian palace politics, put off by the arthritic English libretto. But gradually the glowing music, which had been expertly edited by able Conductor Emil Cooper, put them in a good mood...
...littered mud, dripped from red circus wagons, blew coldly through a rusty cage in which two shaggy lions paced and turned. The lions were not exercised while the rain fell-they were mean cats, and overage (4½ years old) for training, and the bad weather made them sullen and difficult...