Word: abjection
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...time." Take Herbert Hoover now, on the other hand, he conceives things on a far more grandiose scale. In order to buy a small but unknown number of years of uneasy peace for the Americas, he is perfectly willing to let all other peoples of the world disappear into abject slavery behind the Iron Curtain...
...matter of conjecture. Capp, a man with such an instinct for the dramatic that he sometimes lapses into purest fiction, swears that he got the copyright from the syndicate by a one-man strike: he quit drawing the strip for two weeks and thus reduced the syndicate to abject submission...
...alter the fact that he was deadset against giving the Marines a bigger role in the nation's defense plans. But before the week was out, a small, uncertain sigh of relief was to run through the Democratic Party; the President, by his forthright if not abject apology, had fixed things-partly, at least. But there was some headshaking...
...Negro men dancing with white women, but failed to show Negro women too, thus reflecting "one of the mean slanders" against the Negro race. As for the short story, the author (Lillian Long) had failed to answer "slanders" uttered by one of her characters. Concluded the Worker's abject editors: In . . . uncompromising opposition to ... racist ideas, we publicly criticize their appearance. At the same time, we recognize our responsibility and our grievous fault...
...dozen war novels, but it is remarkable to find the "Advocate" writing on the level of the good war novel, and Funk's episode is bright and quietly humorous. The third of the good stories, "Candy for Souran," by Stephen Lewis, is a penetrating look at an abject little shop-keeper and his obese, immobile, and domineering wife...