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...with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude as their characters-grasping, thieving, sullen, vicious, cynical...
...growing up too fast. Home again and locked in a special cell at the Nebraska penitentiary, Chuck himself showed signs of realizing that in the end the world had beaten him. He had been gay and insolent earlier; now, in ultimate defeat, he blinked his myopic eyes and became sullen and silent...
...Djakarta's moldering port of Tandjong Priok, sweltering Dutch housewives and pathetic clusters of elderly women waited solemnly while customs and immigration officials examined their documents and belongings. The Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...
...Fruit Juice Bar are a sullen lot. They convene each evening after the midnight show at the Casino and scowl into vegetable desserts and think...
...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...