Word: abjectness
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...Abject Apology. While he kept a sharp senatorial eye on his fan mail, deadlines & headlines, he was several cuts above the average for congressional investigators. In the eyes of the public the whole performance accrued to his personal credit. Actually, much of the investigative initiative was Rudy Halley's. Much of the evidence was old stuff contributed by friendly cops and newspapermen. The committee achieved one really important result. It brought the decent, dishwashing, baby-feeding public face to face with the curled lip of organized crime, and taught the people to vote against public officials who have condoned...
...high-school football captain drafted willy-nilly as president of the student council and editor of the school paper. John Ford still treats him as a clumsy sophomore and bawls him out unmercifully when they work together. Wayne takes it like a scolded schoolboy and murmurs, "Sorry, Coach," with abject hero-worship. But in other quarters Duke himself is the worshiped hero. Sometimes he finds the situation confusing...
...American institutions," they said, "or our lazy, even abject imitation of them has caused an uncritical acceptance of ideas and assumptions which are alien to our tradition...
...somehow Eisler, who had sat at the top of the Communist pile in the U.S., did not make the East German party's Politburo or Central Committee. Last week, in an abject display of Red breast-beating, published in one of his own propaganda agency handouts, he told...
...broadcast from Peking, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai spurned the Assembly Cease-Fire Committee's third proposal in four weeks for a truce in Korea. It was a trick, he cried, designed "to give the United States troops a breathing space." He demanded abject U.N. surrender...