Word: sullens
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...hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill. He is hard-muscled, handsome, handy with a snub-nosed, 38, and his hide is as tough as the bluing...
...Negro of melancholy mien named Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, 33, and it is largely responsible for putting the San Francisco Giants on a tottering perch at the head of the National League. Last week Sad Sam chomped morosely on his customary toothpick and turned a sullen eye on the Philadelphia Phillies. His crackling curve ball seemed about to eviscerate righthanded batters before breaking sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When he was through, the Giants had won 9-1, and Jones had scored...
...nine Negro youths were arrested for allegedly raping two itinerant white prostitutes in an Alabama freight car, were dragged through interminable trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
...African warders herded 85 ragged prisoners out of the inner compound at Hola camp, 220 miles east of Nairobi, and into an adjacent field. The prisoners were the last hard-core remnants of Mau Mau terrorism. Each had taken the bloody oaths to kill, each had killed; many were sullen and confused men warped by their savagery. For all of them it was to be another day of digging on an irrigation ditch. Suddenly, as if by prearrangement, dozens of the prisoners fell to the ground, refusing to work. The African guards moved in without hesitation, swinging thick clubs against...
...Swiss barmaids at press headquarters in Geneva's "Batiment Electoral." Landing in Geneva, Gromyko made a pithy statement specifically prepared to make pithy headlines. After that, in his dealings with the press, Gromyko set out to prove himself an amiable man of peace, erase the image of the sullen spokesman who so often barked nyet at the U.N. Security Council. While the Western foreign ministers tended to duck out of range, Gromyko smilingly posed for photographers, even agreed to chat with the New York Times's James ("Scotty") Reston and A. M. Rosenthal when they showed up unannounced...