Word: abjection
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...fact, though few if any boast of it, and my name is maligned, belittled, and, worst of all, ignored by some of my most abject, my congregation has spread over the whole world, which now without hyperbole can be said to lie at my feet, in my hands, under my thumb. My subjects rule Russia, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Italy, Ethiopia, Turkey, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States of America, not to mention other, less publicized nations. In all the schools my lies are taught, and the stupidity on which I thrive fostered. I expect a larger percentage of fawners...
Eden First. Appearing at Geneva for the first time as British Foreign Secretary, handsome young Anthony Eden brought the Empire's vast influence to bear squarely upon Danzig. In an abject climb-down, Senate President Arthur Greiser of this minute State agreed that its Government of native Danzig Nazis will abolish flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King...
...this seemingly generous offer, the opposition pastors returned a flat and unanimous "No." Behind the appearance of the State's abject surrender, they spotted the finesse that Minister Kerrl, although promising to appoint opposition clerics, reserved the right to dismiss them as soon as opposition congregations had drained off into his German Christian Church...
...delivered a brash ultimatum (TIME, June 17). It was peculiar that batches of arriving Japanese troops should be waited on in Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister Akira Ariyoshi, newly elevated to the dignity of Japanese Ambassador to the Chinese...
...McHenry case, front-paged the child as the "upsidedown stomach girl" (TIME, March 11). Anticipating that Massachusetts Medicine would promptly call him on the carpet and demand his explanation of all this publicity, Dr. Truesdale forehandedly asked for a hearing, got one, then last month wrote a long, abject "Letter to the Medical Profession," setting forth the entire case in the New England Journal of Medicine. Excerpts...