Word: abjectness
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Florid, flustered Laborite Allighan, an ex-Fleet Streeter, had made an abject apology. But to Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison's proposal that Allighan be suspended for six months, Winston Churchill snapped: "How can you stigmatize a Member as dishonorable . . . and then after an interval . . . resume calling him an Honorable Member?" The House agreed. Shortly after his expulsion Allighan resigned from the Labor Party...
...Things are changing in Central America. The millions of little fellows who for centuries had to be content with thatched huts, mud floors, beans, tortillas and abject poverty have been stirred by Mexico's example and are beginning to ask for more. You find such old line Central American generals as General Castenada talking worriedly of the need for social security laws and labor codes...
...heart of Evita." So standard have these phrases become that opposition Cartoonist Tristan draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar-rich Tucumán province, where sugar workers live in abject peonage, seven people were crushed to death in the rush for gifts. Eva was cool through it all. "I bring a message of love," she said, "for the workers of Tucum...
...events of Mozart's career form an extraordinarily dramatic sequence without benefit of external embellishments: he started as an extraordinary child prodigy, worked with astonishing success at first, then was defeated by the intrigues of petty jealousies, and died in abject poverty, chiefly from overwork, at the age of 35. To this natural and interesting history the Italian producers have added a prolonged and bitter love affair with Aloysia von Weber, whose sister, Constanza, Mozart actually married after only a brief flirtation with Aloysia...
...week's end, U.S. Embassy observers said that the Poles regarded their election with "cynicism, hopelessness, fear and abject submission." But Observer Ingersoll thus wound up his mission to Warsaw: "There was what we would call gross unfairness in the campaign [but] alleged outright fraud in the counting is not substantiated . . . the way to get them to hold Marquis of Queensbury elections here is to applaud them for what they are doing so courageously and well. . . . And if this be lecturing my countrymen, let them make the most...