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...Indonesia, Ghana, Albania, the Congo and the Sudan. Seldom since the Cuban missile crisis, however, have the Russians been handed such a stunning diplomatic slap over so important a suzerainty. Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there have been few events in the Middle East that so upset the sullen status quo and opened the way for either resumption of a brutal war or renewed peace negotiations...
Convict Bobby Lee Hunter has come a long way since he fatally stabbed a man five years ago in a snack-bar scuffle in Do As You Choose Alley, a Charleston, S.C., ghetto. Sentenced to 18 years for manslaughter, he spent the first few years in prison as a sullen, scrappy teen-age con often banished to solitary confinement. Then he was encouraged to take up supervised fighting. His surliness vanished, and since 1970 little Bobby Lee has developed into the nation's best amateur flyweight boxer, with a good chance of winning a medal...
...race wide open and the depth of public unease indicated by the Wallace and Jackson votes, the Jackson strategists see a chance for their man to slip in as a kind of Wallace-in-spats. "The U.S. political center is angry," argues Jackson Manager Ben Wattenberg. "It's sullen. The question now is: Can any candidate deal with the frustrations constructively? Wallace has proved he can deal with them negatively. That's not what people want. Jackson can get the Wallace vote-no one else...
...December I was always very sullen with Barrie. His jokes annoyed me, his endless anecdotes seemed pointless, and the incessant cold, inside and out, of a London winter felt more chill with him. I grumbled about it, I cut off his rantings in midstream, I complained about everything when I was with...
...Queegsotic Caine over loose shirttails and dirty dungarees. Worse than that, the captain forced everyone to attend Protestant services, and took 20-minute showers in his cabin while the men, simmering in their floating tin box, had to do without. The Vance's crew, asserts the author, grew sullen. Eventually, a chaplain was surreptitiously sent aboard to sound out morale. Two weeks later, Lieut. Commander Arnheiter was summarily relieved...