Word: abjectness
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...quickly made amends to the Post with a special Hatlo cartoon (a Post editor tearing his hair and screaming "Kill the Hatlo cartoon!! No, better still, kill Hatlo!") and Ratio's "abject apologies to every dog ... in Denver." Said his apology: "This sort of thing is always happening to me. If I draw a cold-weather cartoon showing my characters shivering in their red underwear . . . the temperature will rise to about 102°F. the day it appears...
...Unitarian Association, has his own estimate of the mood of orthodox Protestantism today: "Black reaction and black pessimism." The doctrine being emphasized, said Dr. Eliot at a Unitarian meeting in Cincinnati, "is one of absolute despair, which sets up as the only possible avenue of escape from cosmic disaster abject submission to deity, the unquestioned acceptance of religious authoritarian creeds, and the futility of human effort...
...South Africa is not one of "Europe's colonies," as your editorial seems to imply. Your writer, furthermore, adopts an unwarranted tone of self-righteousness in describing the British oppression of the natives. One might recall that the United States also reduced its native (Indian) population to a "most abject squalor and poverty...
...South Africa half a century ago, under the leadership of Cecil Rhodes and by means of massive military superiority, its policy has changed from ruthless persecution of the natives to paternalism and a tendency toward actual reform. First the British reduced the huge native population to the most abject squalor and poverty by stealing its land and developing industries by exploiting the vast oversupply of labor. They even accentuated the latter by importing thousands of Indian laborers...
Journalist Treiber had made a dreadful mistake: Pankow is in the Russian sector of Berlin, not as he had thought in one of the Western sectors. When Freies Volk discovered Treiber's error, it quickly printed an abject retraction: "Rudi Treiber has been unmasked [and fired] ... as a liar and an agent provocateur." Said ex-Comrade Treiber lamely: "I just didn't know where Pankow...