Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted the award of the Nobel Prize as a literary distinction. I rejoiced . . . But I was wrong." White-haired Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak wrote these abject words in Pravda last week, and the Soviet news agency Tass triumphantly fired them round the world as Pasternak's "confession" that the Swedish prize committee's award to him last month had been "political...
...Oscar was less abject and more candid: "I thrive on humiliation. That's the reason I went back to Channel 13. I couldn't get that much humiliation anywhere else...
...board's new policy holds up, it may affect as many as 9,500 students-the i% of the school population estimated to be the hard-core punks. It raised a howl among some teacher and civic groups as "an act of desperation" and "an abject surrender to pressure," and there was talk that the policy might be challenged in the courts. Since the city is desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets...
...Tito's honored guest, and the preparations for celebrating the Soviet's 40th anniversary were well under way in Moscow. But Khrushchev struck. His party machine whirred soundlessly. Within a week after Zhukov's return to Moscow, the Soviet Union's top soldier and war hero made an abject confession of "errors," and Khrushchev told foreign reporters with boozy insouciance: "In life, one cell must die and another take its place. But life goes on. Marshal Zhukov did not turn out well as a political figure, but he was a good marshal and a good soldier." Just then, Sputnik...
...What had happened? Many Middle East specialists thought that refugee disenchantment with Nasser began with the Israeli attack into the Sinai. There, before the eyes of 220,000 refugees in the Gaza Strip, their posturing champion, who was to lead the refugees back to their homeland, went down to abject defeat before the Israeli army. To every refugee came the sobering realization that no Arab leader was going to force Israel into the sea and restore them to their lands...