Word: cower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular town, government or country in mind when he concocted his play; his target was the pathetic mendacity of everyone, everywhere. The rural officials who mistake a visiting landowner's son for an inspector general from Petersburg show off every human failing, but in shriveled, impoverished versions. They cower from their own defects like they cower from the rest of the world. Their sins, they protest, are "sinlets...