Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houses, as far as can be found, are there an appreciable number who take dinner between five-thirty and six; in all there are scores who regularly scurry in as near to seven as possible, and then are forced to bolt down salad, dessert and coffee, in abject submission to the impatience of the waitresses...
...called the Capitals. Mrs. Martin recognizes that the "gambling obsession'' in man is unquenchable, therefore the Capitals would be permitted to continue a limited capitalistic economic system based on luxury industries. "Everybody would be happy. All the millionaires could keep their money, but there would be no abject poverty." The Commons would run all heavy industry, all transportation systems, all farms. "The farmer's day has passed." says Mrs. Martin. Every Capital would be provided free of charge with shelter and with food through "parcel post service, enormously enlarged and visiting each doorway every day." Life...
Cried Dr. Maier: "Without Luther there could have been no Washington. . . . While [Lincoln] dealt with bodies in bondage and minds coerced by mental slavery, Luther threw off the shackles of that damnable spiritual tyranny that pressed human souls of all colors and races into the strait jacket of abject terror that cringes before the distressing spectres of an outraged conscience and shudders before the thought of God and eternity. . . . All Protestantism, yea, Roman Catholicism itself, as its eminent scholars have admitted, not only owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude but also needs the restatement of many of his principles...
...Deputies of the German Reichstag and 68 in the Prussian Diet were refused permission to join the Nazis last week and became ''men without a party." Most of them were expected to resign their seats. The decree of the Catholic Centre executives dissolving the party was piteously abject. They begged that Catholic dignitaries be "protected from slander" in the Nazi Press and that physical property belonging to Catholic Centrist Party headquarters be not confiscated. "A political revolution." they declared, "has placed German state life on a completely new basis which leaves no room for party activity. The German...
...critic a few days ago told me, that he is willing to revise his idea of Gandhi's leadership. . . The second Round Table Conference objectively showed Gandhi's abject failure as a leader. Yet the critic comes again with a reply stating it as an "unassailable fact," that Gandhi is the greatest leader...