Word: abjectly
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...army went away in the family carriages piled high with hickory cured hams & bacon, black slave wenches seated high in the carriages wearing the family clothes that had been sacked. Incidentally, all but one of these slave girls returned and brought back the clothes in abject apology...
Thoroughly professional Journalist Isaac Don Levine, sharp biographer of Joseph Stalin, has for years delivered such pungent judgments as, "No Government in the world is corroded by such internal abject fear as the Stalin Dictatorship." TIME repeats that his dynamic fact-marshaling has consistently been antiStalinist, which in official Moscow's view is always the chief evidence of "Trotskyism." (See Red Smoke by Isaac Don Levine-McBride, 1932, $2.) As to who first interviewed Joseph Stalin, the technically prior claims of able, Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have...
Lyons turned out in the January American Mercury a dispassionate, detailed six-point analysis of how it happens that in the Soviet Union there is so much abject confessing of whatever it would do the Dictator good to have confessed. Mr. Lyons, veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum that Soviet prisoners who do not succeed in convincing the henchmen of Justice that they can be depended on to confess fairly convincingly in open court are never brought to trial at all, just taken downstairs and shot. Justice today, in Russian cases of importance, according to Mr. Lyons, does...
...between the emotional and intellectual activities of the victim, the condition is the greatest mystery of psychiatry. The spirit tries to run away from reality. The tortured soul attempts to hide. The victim loses his will power, his ability to concentrate, his memory, bis judgment. Extreme cases become more abject and helpless than sick infants. About 10,000 of the 40,000 schizophrenic cases who develop in the U. S. each year acquire wild, paranoiac ideas of grandeur or of persecution. About half the new cases are merely too scatter-brained and gloomy to be allowed at large...
...recalls what Japan has been putting over on China in recent years. In Shanghai the mere suspicion that a Chinese had thrown a pear core out the window of a restaurant at a Japanese sailor was taken by Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...