Word: abjection
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...Boston Dr. Towneley Thorndike French, 57, graduate of the Harvard Medical School, murdered his wife "because I was tired of living in abject poverty." Six weeks ago Mrs. French was discharged as an elevator operator...
...Associated Press promptly announced that Professor Slutzky had not committed suicide. But he has been ousted from the Communist Party, has lost his professorship and is a social out-cast in Soviet Russia-despite the fact that Slutzky wrote an immediate, abject apology and complete retraction of his article to Stalin, the Man of Steel...
Investigator Knickerbocker found 15,000,000 Germans on the dole, wrote touchingly of abject poverty in the Red quarter of Berlin in striking contrast to gay night life around the Kurfursten Damm. In the town of Falkenstein, Saxony, he found half the population on the dole; in Thuringian villages the spectre of starvation. In Essen there was the ever-present fear of a new French invasion of the Ruhr, overshadowing the threat of Communism. Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding...
...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...
Virginia's Glass flayed Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas, who accepted the Compromise, for his "abject surrender" on the principle of free Federal aid. Idaho's Borah in one last dramatic revolt against the Compromise, exclaimed...