Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anthony flowed suavely on. "For this country, military action is always the last resort, and we shall go on working for a peaceful solution so long as there is any prospect of achieving one. But the government are not prepared to embark on a policy of abject appeasement . . . The government must be free to take whatever steps are open to them to restore the situation...
...mail continued to arrive. "You are a fragrant lily in a valley of abject passions," wrote a woman in Florence. ''Forward, good Vittorio; yours is a holy...
...courage to murder his captain, is earlier depicted as a man too irresolute to take command even when Eddie Albert is totally incapacitated by fear. The acting has the same black-and-white simplicity as the theme; it will be a long time, fortunately, before any movie displays such abject terror as that of Eddie Albert or such preposterous heroics as those of Jack Palance...
...After the war Stalin became even more capricious, irritable and brutal; in particular, his suspicion grew. His persecution mania reached unbelievable dimensions . . . This un believable suspicion was cleverly taken advantage of by the abject provocateur and vile enemy Beria, who had murdered thousands of Communists and loyal Soviet people . . . The question arises . . . Why did we not do something earlier, during Stalin's life, in order to prevent the loss of innocent lives? It was because Stalin personally supervised [the purges], and the majority of the Politburo members did not at the time know all of the circumstances . . . and could...
...Alabama, Editor Buford Boone of the News (circ. 15,681) topped off thorough coverage of the Lucy story with a hard-hitting editorial: "The university administration and trustees have knuckled under to the pressures and desires of a mob . . . We have a breakdown of law and order and abject surrender to what is expedient ..." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser (circ. 60,144), which sees no integration possible in the Deep South in the foreseeable future, nonetheless has given full coverage to the Negro boycott of Montgomery buses (TIME, Jan. 16). It has devoted columns to interviews with leaders of the boycott...