Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would take some time for almost everybody, even the victors, to get used to the unexpected new reality. It had taken a bare seven weeks for the Saigon government to slide precipitately to abject defeat. The collapse had begun with a Communist attack on the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, 160 miles north of Saigon. Then followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's disastrous strategic withdrawal, which turned into a rout. Within weeks, Communist forces had advanced virtually unopposed to the very outskirts of Saigon. Forced to resign and flee the country, Thieu was replaced...
...wild-eyed broadside in the New York Times, Sir Robert Thompson, consultant on guerrilla warfare to President Nixon, argued that "a new foreign policy line has already been laid down by Congress: if you surrender, the killing will stop. It is a clear message, to the world, of the abject surrender of the United States...
...nostalgia for the 1950s, there ought to be at least one small report for William Castle, a producer and director of low-budget horror films. Castle fashioned a personality for himself-a sort of little-theater Hitchcock-and assaulted audiences with gimmicks that never really succeeded in disguising the abject sleaziness of his movies. In The House on Haunted Hill, he announced a new process called "Emerge," which turned out to be a phosphorescent skeleton strung on wires and sent scurrying over the heads of the audience. In The Tingler, Castle himself appeared at the beginning to warn audiences they...
Written for a reported $100,000 advance with the help of Freelance Writer Patrick Anderson, Magruder's book contains only an occasional hint of the abject contrition that marked his final statement to the bench, and it offers little fresh evidence about the evolution of the Watergate crimes. He guesses Nixon was involved all along in the coverup: "Based on my knowledge of how the White House operated, I would suspect that once the burglars were arrested, Nixon immediately demanded and got the full story, and that thereafter he kept in close personal touch with the cover-up operation...
...doggedly uncovered and exposed the plight of Congolese natives whom King Leopold of the Belgians had promised to deliver from slavery but instead through torture, amputation and the lash, forced into the production of rubber. As a result of Casement's crusade-obstructed at every step by the "abject pifflers" of the Foreign Office -the Congo Free State, a private monopoly, was pried from ruthless Leopold's personal grasp and placed under the more or less civilized control of the Belgian government...