Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contempt for anyone who walked away from a fight. That included famed Kit Carson, who served under him as an Indian agent. Carson prudently ran away and hid when a gathering of Ute and Apache Indians became threatening. Meriwether suspended him forthwith. After Carson sent an abject letter of apology, Meriwether grudgingly reinstated him, but as long as the semiliterate Carson remained in his service Meriwether issued reprimands about his sloppy administration. "Poor Kit," he said, "was a good trapper, hunter, and guide, and . . . had acquired a reputation which spoiled him, and which in after life and in a higher...
...Every career man's secret fear nightmarishly materializes in the ordeal of one Manhattan executive, abruptly ousted from his high-salaried berth in an ad agency. Dodd's palpable masterpiece of terror shadows the desperate job hunter on his grim rounds as he shrinks from breadwinner to abject pleader...
...hands of primitive tribesmen just converted to Communism is blunt, jolting and thorough. A man of almost glacial self-control, ex-marine Wolfkilt became the natural leader of the American captives as they fought to preserve not only their lives but their sanity through more than a year of abject misery...
...lifted. Red Roses & Phantoms. More than that, the exhibition offers a revealing glimpse of a personal side of the poet's work. He drew guitars and mandolins, stage decors and a very plain-looking muse. He sketched the heroine of his first well-known play, Mariana Pineda, as abject as ever a young senorita could look, in a yellow gown, clutching a red rose to her breast. Many Lorca drawings are in pencil with whispering lines, others are childishly colored in bright crayons. Several, sketched in Manhattan, where in 1929-30 he wrote his most surrealistic poetry (Poet...
...human degradation and starvation is likewise a moral-as well as a material-obligation resting upon every enlightened government. If we now ignore the plight of those unborn generations which, because of our unreadiness to take corrective action in controlling population growth, will be denied any expectations beyond abject poverty and suffering, then history will rightly condemn...