Word: abjection
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Soon after he was appointed chairman of what is virtually a Ministry of Postwar Reconstruction last month, Laborite Arthur Greenwood broadcast his ideas as follows: "Britain, after the war, will not tolerate in her midst the tragic spectacle of abject poverty, nor the existence of . .. unemployment...
...straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings" brackets, between $15,000 and $500,000. In the making, taxperts guessed, was some bludgeon being tooled to club upstanding tax-exempt securities into an abject state of taxation...
...usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself. ... He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...
...bird now with the husband, now with the wife, shows it as the intense embodiment of captive freedom, of the artist's urge, of love. By the time the day is over, the mutual crucifixion of the Irish marriage is thoroughly clear; the Irishman has made two abject, ambiguous attempts at murder; and Glenway Wescott has wrung a little more than the last drop of slantwise symbolism from the actions and the lore of the bird...
...Expected Theme of the first 2,000 Lewis words was Lewis against Roosevelt. That theme had first been sounded by John Lewis within a year after he poured $500,000 into the 1936 Roosevelt campaign. Last year he arraigned the New Deal for abject domestic failure ("The nation cannot forever continue its appalling drift"). Last January he had fiercely denounced a third term. Last week he finally let himself go. Speaking like an oldtime tragedian, he let his orotund words roll out over three networks, 322 radio stations, to perhaps 25,000,000 listeners...