Word: demeans
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...demean our own character when we try to adopt this kind of proposal," cried Ev. "I believe we have demeaned ourselves enough, all over one fallen angel...
...friendly country." In actuality, Nyerere remained in Dar es Salaam, but he let his Defense Minister Oscar Kambona come to terms with the soldiers. This was probably because he felt that his first duty to the nation was to survive unharmed, and also because he did not want to demean his office by dealing with the mutineers...
...works have been translated only into Swiss!" In Milan, where he teaches literature at the Giuseppe Verdi Music Conservatory, Quasimodo was quite pleased by the honor (value: $42,606) that shocked Italy's literary world. But even in his hour of triumph, he found a moment to demean the merit of Soviet Author Boris (Doctor Zhiuago) Pasternak, reluctant rejecter of last year's Nobel award. Huffed Nobelman Quasimodo: "Pasternak is as far from this generation as the moon is from us." Quasimodo is an expert of sorts on lunar matters: after the U.S.S.R. launched its first satellite...
...Ph.D.s "persist in their perverse modesty and deliberately hide the fact that they are doctors." Even worse, "they help demean their profession further by lending themselves to the widespread practice ... of handing out honorary doctor's degrees . . . like lollipops." Seymour's recommendation: replacing honorary doctorates with O.C.C. (Outstanding Citizen of the Community) degrees, so that recipients cannot masquerade as hand-carved Ph.D.s. Whatever happens, it is probable that Ph.D.s will, willy-nilly, go on passing as ordinary mortals. Byline on the Educational Record piece: plain "Harold Seymour...
...whole insidious plot designed to demean the fair name of Harvard will transpire in the comic strip "Li'1 Abner," and was hatched by the cartoon's creator, Al Capp, a man with a cause...