Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Cong prisoners seldom squeal on their Red buddies, and when they do their information is usually useless. Some are so terrified-and ignorant-that they babble meaninglessly to interrogators. Still others respond to questions with a sullen, defiant stare. But last week two captured terrorists led U.S. troops to some hot and fruitful fighting...
...other Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba." The manager fell to his knees on the sidewalk, kissed Joan's hand and begged her to return. She went back after some hesitation, then tried to laugh away the incident by mimicking orangutans shelling peanuts at the zoo. Richard was still sullen...
...their lives in the long gray shadow of the Lost Cause, Lee's men were nevertheless going on toward the future. Pride in what they had done would grow with the years, but it would turn them into a romantic army of legend and not into a sullen battalion of death...
Last April the Elephant Valley was deep, dark Viet Cong country. Paths and paddies were deserted by day; the rifles of Red snipers dominated the night. When Clement's battalion of marines moved in, they found the 20,000 inhabitants of the 100-sq.-mi. region sullen and closemouthed. Trade was at a standstill, bridges across the wild mountain streams had been blown, and no villager felt safe from Viet Cong terror. By applying intelligent compassion and tough soldiering, Clement has since converted most of the Elephant Valley from numbness to normality. "Someone has to win this war," says...
...Monica Vitti, brooding about fate in The Soup, mocks her own sullen beauty with surprising verve as an impoverished young wife yearning to rid herself of a wretched husband who slurps and belches at mealtime. She is "lucky enough to be hit by a car," and invests her meager insurance money in a series of hired killers, some dishonest, some amorous, none very efficient...