Word: sullens
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...Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the future Richard Lionheart. Geoffrey Monmouth, and King John--as they vie for control of England's future. "I was torn from you by the midwife," the adolescent John cries out at this mother, "and I haven't seen you since." "Yes," chimes in sullen Richard, his rival for the throne, "blame the midwife. She threw out the baby and kept the afterbirth...
...sullen calm seems to hang over Gdansk. But beneath the surface, a dangerous and defiant mood can be seen in underground leaflets, posters and graffiti. Said one message chalked on a metal door in the port of Gdynia, near Gdansk: THE WINTER IS YOURS- THE SPRING WILL BE OURS. Seeking to dampen Gdansk's rebellious spirit, authorities recently removed an inscription from a wall behind the towering monument to workers killed in the 1970 uprising. It read: "They died so that you could live in dignity." Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs...
Were the Polish people reassured? On the contrary, they were in shock and mourning. The queues at food shops, a familiar sight in contemporary Poland, had resumed. But the shoppers, their cheeks red from the deep cold (5° F in many places), were sullen. In the countryside, the only visible evidence of the nation's changed circumstances was the snow-muffled rumble of tanks and military trucks along the roads. But inside their houses, people were praying?and cursing. "I have lived through two wars," said a farmer north of Warsaw, "and now I am on my third. Just...
...Uncle Sam gets bellicose, the Sandinistas grow sullen...
...traditional Tory civility. When Thatcher's Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, put forth a relatively mild motion on law-and-order, it was hooted down. Observed Political Commentator Peter Jenkins in the Guardian: "Beneath the incantations of the simple Thatcherite faith is a nasty tone of class grievance and sullen nationalism...