Word: abjection
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...Abject and hoping for clemency, Tilden (technically charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor) listened to the castigation by Superior Court Judge A. A. Scott: "You have been an idol to thousands of youngsters and admired by millions of adults throughout the world." Murmured Big Bill: "I'm very sorry...
...President about to address a new Congress has a threefold problem: he must be firm but not insulting, must recommend without demanding, must be conciliatory but not abject-in short, he must present the best illustration possible of how the executive and legislative departments should work together in a democracy. When the President is of one party and the Congress of another, the problem is intensified...
...uncaught, Bishop Socche decided to invoke an unusually severe measure of church discipline. He placed San Martino and the surrounding region under an interdict. He thundered from his pulpit that unless police promptly solved this murder "by the children of Cain" he would tell the whole world of "the abject terror that weighs down on our countryside. . . . Should someone kill your bishop . . remember that [he] fell because he wanted [to end] conditions imposed on the majority by a few criminals...
...profoundly disturbed. . . . The Federal Administration is embarked upon a policy of continued appeasement of American industry. . . . The Administration yields in abject cowardice. . . . The C.I.O. shall mobilize its entire membership to defeat this specific measure and all similar attempts directed against labor...
...spent his evenings, he admits, not in "reading good books and drinking tea," but lounging around with "a fast set ... given to cards and tobacco (and) spirits." He always "wished (he) had never been born," and looked so abject that once, after he had conducted the Queen of Saxony on an official tour of the Post Office, her gentleman-in-waiting pressed a half crown into his grimy hand. When he was offered a transfer to a bleak section of Ireland, Trollope gratefully accepted...