Word: abjection
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Forty years ago a young English doctor sailed his ketch along this same coast, and was so moved by the abject poverty of the inhabitants that he decided to devote his life to the betterment of their lot. Today hospitals and schools, missions and orphanages stand as tribute to the energy of one man, this doctor, whose name has become synonymous with Labrador. In the widest possible sense he has educated the people not to suffer on the barest edge of the land but to develop the resources--timber and minerals--which lie inland...
Most other world figures of 1938 faded in importance as the year drew to a close. Prime Minister Chamberlain's "peace with honor'' seemed more than ever to have achieved neither. An increasing number of Britons ridiculed his appease-the-dictators policy, believed that nothing save abject surrender could satisfy the dictators' ambitions...
Meanwhile, President Benes and Premier Hodza "yielded unconditionally" to the Anglo-French demands. This may have been smart, too, for the news that Prague had apparently crumpled up in abject surrender caused Adolf Hitler to feel that he need not hurl the German Army at once into Sudetenland. Finally, it was smart for the Hodza Cabinet to resign as soon as it had "yielded unconditionally," thus clearing the way for a fresh Czecho-slovak Government with a clean slate...
Said Dr. Dunlap: "Women . . . seem less abject in their obedience to foolish laws than are men. ... It was once against rigid convention for women to expose their legs in public...
...London had appeared news dispatches from Editor William J. Makin, of the Jamaica Standard, formerly editor of Pearson's Weekly. Wrote Editor Makin: "Starvation and abject poverty stalk this land. . . ." To heated Laborites' inquiries about Jamaica's "horrible conditions" in Britain's House of Commons young Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary for the Colonies, answered: "I am not satisfied with the position in Jamaica and the West Indies generally...