Word: abjectness
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...identical chair when protesting outrageous alimony demands. Waiting for the P.T.A. meeting to begin, he sprawls. Waiting for the loan officer to finish a phone call, he assumes the well-known suppliant's crouch, a kind of sidesaddle, lock-kneed pose designed to convey simultaneously fiscal responsibility and abject need...
...Communist parties in Moscow this December to condemn the Chinese, but the fraternal parties dragged their feet so that the meeting threatened to be a fiasco. Another terrible defeat was the disintegration of Soviet power over European Communism culminating in the Italian party's declaration of independence, the formerly abject French party's similar declaration, and the virtual revolt of the heretofore grovelling Rumanians...
...vignettes of violent street scenes and underworld characters develop into a seething panorama of the revolutionary mob, culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several times in danger from the Terror, but made an abject declaration for the party of Robespierre and survived to become a minor police official under Napoleon...
Died. Alexander Gerasimov, 82, Stalin's favorite painter, a totally unimaginative member of the draw-it-likethey-want-it-to-look school who won just about every honor there was for his portraits of the Soviet dictator, but fell from favor in the great destalinization campaign despite his abject recantings, a switch that Western observers regarded as something akin to Whistler turning on his mother; of a heart attack; in Moscow...
...deny the rumors of a minister's indiscretions with Christine. Profumo's firm denial of wrongdoing, and a demonstration of support from Prime Minister Macmillan, quashed the story temporarily-until it burst forth again last week. This time Profumo resigned from the government after an abrupt, abject confession that he had previously lied to the Prime Minister, his colleagues and the House of Commons...