Word: abjectness
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...football. And no team compares with the National Football League's New York Giants. As Eliot Asinof puts it in a new book on the Giants, Seven Days to Sunday (Simon & Schuster, $5.95): "If you are a Giant fan, you have a turbulent heritage of soaring ecstasy and abject humiliation-but never indifference. You are one whose loyalty is unquestioned, whose joy is resounding, whose abusiveness is devastating. You are black or white, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. You are a janitor or a Wall Street broker, an artist or a truck driver, a college dean...
...mechanics-carried arms for fear of saboteurs or sudden attack. The U S bombers were on airborne alert round the clock, and the nation's capacity for devastating retaliation was unquestioned. So was the efficiency of Curt LeMay. His men regarded him with a combination of respect and abject terror...
Hamsun remembered the abject misery that he found in a lawful, ordered society. His writing gave it voice, and Oscarsson gives it substance-articulating the agonies of all the poor, as when he gags on a bone that he has begged. "Damnation," he cries, "is there nothing one may keep for oneself...
...publication. At 83, Prouvost pleaded with his staff not to form the union, but they voted overwhelmingly to go ahead. The publisher retaliated by dismissing Executive Editor Roger Therond and Managing Editor Lacaze. Again the staff rebelled and voted to reinstate the editors. Prouvost backed down-for the moment. Abject Failure. But he soon proceeded to outflank his staff. Without ostensibly firing the reinstated editors, he installed a new triumvirate over them...
...poorer than a porter on Wall Street." The 2% of the population that the government considers to be rich has an annual per capita income of only $1,167. Most of the country's 5,400,000 people-40% Indian, 50% mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into the reeking slums that blight the cities like open sores. With the disarming candor and detachment of one who is stepping down from power-and is glad of it-Arosemena tells it like it is. "Infant...