Word: abjectly
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Perhaps as Nixon had intended, the strikes had more impact in Saigon than in Hanoi. The tough decision to mine the harbors helped lift the gloom that had settled over President Nguyen Van Thieu and his South Vietnamese general staff in the wake of the abject ARVN collapses at Quang Tri and in most of the Central Highlands. The disasters had frozen Saigon into a paralytic numbness-the sort of debilitating shock that can quickly translate into a sudden and mortal collapse of morale. In order to boost the sagging spirits of the capital, ARVN set up a display...
...hero snatches the money for her sight-restoring operation and bolts. Later, as he wanders the streets after his release from jail, he meets his old love, now proprietress of her own shop. She knows him by the touch of his hand, but barely hides her disappointment in his abject poverty. We are left facing the little Tramp who clutches strange and how bitter for us to end in tears after laughing incessantly for an hour and a half...
...church dictatorially directed by atheists is a spectacle that has not been seen for 2,000 years," lamented Alexander Solzhenitsyn last week. In an unpublished "Lenten Letter" that is widely circulating in Moscow, the famed novelist accused Patriarch Pimen, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, of abject submission to the Kremlin's antireligious policies...
...liberal social science and also tried to understand the hopes and fears of white Southerners buffeted about as the pace of social change increased. Then to Appalachia, the land of hollows and coal mines, where some of the children of the first English settlers in America live in abject poverty, and he talked to a proud people bewildered by an America that had passed them by. And as the black southerners and the white mountain people traveled North, "up there," in search of a better job and a better life, Coles went with them and chronicled their exodus. The South...
...Marrow. The degradation of language parallels the decay of power and majesty. One workman, Glendenning (Tom Alkins), is a tongue-knotted baboon who cannot put his feet, let alone his words, where he wants to. With this handful of human rubble -stuttering, stumbling, abject-Storey evokes the race that gave the world the speech of Shakespeare, the King James Bible and Churchill...