Word: abjectly
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...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...
...boycotted school, and businessmen shut their shops. A protest meeting was held in the city's biggest mosque. In the state assembly, a Hindu Communist took advantage of the situation to decry the government's "indifference to the resentment of the Moslem minority." The Pioneer published an abject apology for having run the ad, and Dog Lover Shah was arrested for offending the public...
...heart, all of you would be dead." An old Caid in flowing robes made the surrender speech: "If this happens again, may you come back and decimate our tribe!" With that, tribesmen slashed the legs of twelve sacrificial bulls, and the beasts sank to their knees in token of abject submission. "Blood is spilled," chanted the Berbers. "Peace returns...
...Yugoslavs, not completely satisfied, pointed out that whereas the Russians had shot Beria, the Hungarians had merely jailed Gabor Peter. They demanded a more abject confession by Rakosi. Comrade Tito is an old hand at inflicting, as well as receiving, humiliation...
...Massachusetts Bay Charter referred to Curley as "J. Curley, alias J. Crookyde," and mentioned that the mayor "left jail to serve another term as mayor." 'Poon President Paul Brooks '31 hastily rushed to offer the magazine's apologies to the mayor. The mayor, because of "the complete and abject apology of the president of the Harvard Lampoon, in view of his extreme youth and the effect that court proceedings might have on his future . . .," accepted the apologies...