Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olivar cleared his bench, but the subs, bent on letters (for one minute in the game), did as well as the varsity. The only Harvard boys who seemed able to outplay their opponents were in the fine Crimson band. And at the end, even they had to sit in sullen silence while Yale's musicmen blared away with Goodnight, Poor Harvard, and the big Bowl Scoreboard bragged about the biggest victory "The Game" has ever known: Yale 54, Harvard...
...supper ritual, a quite mad hunting scene. As the flighty duchess, Helen Hayes -if not wholly French-is very often wholly delightful, alternating an actress' skill with a vaudevillian's liveliness. Richard Burton plays a prince who is more bored than bereaved with a fine sullen dash; and his verbal aria on how sad it is to be rich is far more piquant than anything of Saroyan's on how jolly it is to be poor. Susan Strasberg makes a very pretty but monotonous-voiced milliner, and Sig Arno a capital headwaiter...
That night police grilled the cowering, neurotic youth, Moshe ben Yaacov Dueg, who had thrown the bomb. "Why did you do it?" they asked. "Because," he answered in sullen, resentful tones, "the Jewish Agency robbed me." He was a worrying, ailing, ne'er-do-well full of fancied grievances against all officialdom; his grudge was a private one, unconnected with the seething political turmoil of the Middle East. "I know," Ben-Gurion wrote his parents, "that you regret, as does all Israel, the dastardly and foolish crime your son perpetrated. But you are not to blame. You are living...
These words of Hungarian Poet Gyula Illyes, written in 1950, were first published a year ago in Budapest when, for a moment, there was freedom. Last week on the first anniversary of the day the nation rose in revolt, Hungarians could demonstrate only by sullen silence...
...French army jeep squealed to a halt as a sullen young Arab planted himself in the middle of the casbah street and refused to budge. A French private named Geronimo leaped from the jeep, and unlimbering his Tommy gun, faced the Moslem troublemaker. From the sidelines an old Arab shuffled forward and tried to soothe his compatriot: "Go home. Come on, don't be mulish.'' Before the old Arab had finished his plea, Private Geronimo's Tommy gun stuttered in reply, and the old man "collapsed softly, muttering to himself unintelligibly while his blood flowed down...