Word: abjectly
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...General Pinko," and "Pinko Punko." In reply, the Post and Wechsler brought a $1,525,000 libel suit against Winchell, his sponsor (Gruen Watch Co.), Hearst Corp., King Features Syndicate and American Broadcasting Co. (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952). This week, in settlement of the suit, Winchell issued the most abject retraction of his career. Because of his trouble over this and other libel suits, he also broke off his $12,500-a-week contract with...
...badly enough, Jonson decided that "anything" was the answer, and worked it out in terms of wife-swapping, son-disinheriting, and general self-abasement. These are the pastimes of three confirmed lickspittles groveling after the fortune of a nouveau rich merchant. Each reaches a more advanced state of abject greed than his neighbor, and all an egged on by Volpone's social secretary, Mosca...
...overall record of American prisoners in Korea showed that resistance to Red demands was neither futile nor lethal; defiant captives usually fared as well as abject collaborators. Last week the court of eleven officers evidently decided that-in the absence of dire and direct physical duress-dog meat, sulfa pills or any other material benefits were not reason enough for Fleming's conduct. The verdict: guilty of collaboration. The sentence: dishonorable dismissal, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances...
...Tracy was ready to stand behind her article, but the Sunday Times backed away from a showdown in court with the priest by writing a letter apologizing to him and paying $2,100 to a charity he designated. Writer Tracy was also infuriated when the Sunday Times printed an abject retraction in which the paper "admitted" that her article was "an unjustifiable attack on the character and posi tion" of Doneraile's Canon Maurice O'Connell. Indignant that the Sunday Times had disavowed her story without consulting her or trying to check the truth of the piece, Honor...
...that he has to ask that question." Then Dulles defined international Communism in blistering terms as "that farflung, clandestine political organization which is operated by the leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and which, since 1939, has brought 15 once-independent nations into a state of abject servitude...