Word: abjected
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...reminiscing, in print, about the fight in 1941 when Heavyweight Lou ("Cosmic Punch") Nova lost by a six-round technical knockout to Champion Joe Louis. Wrote Flaherty: "The cowardly [appearance of] Nova was like a frightened, screaming child at vaccination time . . . They lugged his carcass and towed it in abject disgrace toward his corner. He smiled bravely in the safety of his dressing room, wiping out the manliness of every victory he had ever...
...editors pulled a quick switch and scheduled Marshal TITO for this week's cover. At hand was Cover Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker's latest portrait of Tito. Prophetically, the portrait shows the great stone face that Tito turned on the Russian delegation as Khrushchev made his abject recital. Bonn Bureau Chief James Bell, who watched the incredible scene on the newly asphalted apron of the Zemun Airport, reported: "It was the face of a stubborn, impassive Slav, determined that no man should read the thoughts which must have raced behind...
Khrushchev baited his trap with the most abject apology any Communist leader ever made. Tito's ejection from the Cominform was a terrible mistake, said Khrushchev. "We sincerely regret what happened, and resolutely reject the things which occurred, one after the other, during that period." He produced a scapegoat. The trouble, he said, all came because of "the provocative role which was played in the relations between Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. by enemies of the people-Beria, Abakumov and others-who have been unmasked." (Beria and Abakumov, tidily removed by execution, are always useful on such occasions...
...largely on the ground that he had willfully violated Bellarmine's so-called "injunction" of 1616. Aside from its melodramatic trappings, e.g., the threat of torture (the use of which was never remotely contemplated, according to De Santillana), the drama of the Inquisition lies in Galileo's abject recantation of his life's work. For this, Author de Santillana offers plausible reasons. Galileo was in his 70th year, ill and afraid. Moreover, he was a devout Catholic. "He had realized at last that the authorities were not interested in truth but only in authority . . . Moralist historians . . . forget...
Proper Climate. In Tulsa, the Jenkins appliance store filled its display windows with air conditioners, watched a blizzard drop temperatures from springlike warmth to a record low for the date, posted an abject apology: "Sorry for the change . . . We left one of those conditioners on over the weekend...