Word: groveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with internal strife, including Communist and bandit activities, engaging the wholesale attention of Chinese Government Forces." At this time 30,000 Japanese soldiers in North China had thoroughly beaten 300,000 Chinese soldiers, had approached within five miles of Peiping, and had, by a ruthless stratagem, made Chinese pride grovel in the thick dust of the little town of Tangku...
...Japan, when things get as far out of hand as they had last week, it is supposed that the Son of Heaven has been inconvenienced or disturbed and officials of the Empire are supposed to regret this. They may regret it either by voicing their shame with an appropriate grovel or by disemboweling themselves in harakiri...
...three-hour conversation with brisk little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after which the Chinese satraps of the five provinces figuratively thumbed their noses at General Doihara. When, with boiling anger, the General sputtered in Peiping at a local Chinese commander, hurling threats which would ordinarily have made him grovel, Chinese General Hsiao Chengying said with quiet, studied Oriental insolence that the five provinces had just received the strongest telegraphic orders from Nanking: "So if you want autonomy declared, General Doihara, you must force Nanking to instruct us differently...
...flashing by. In ones and twos and threes. From Hartford, Conn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Okmulgee, Okla. And from Roxbury, East Boston and Revere. Come to leap into the meat-chopper. Come to wear their young lives away on Andromache and Karl Heinrich. Come to strut before Brattle brats and grovel before Deans. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to write feeble pish for the Lampoon and pseudo-esoteric banalities for the Advocate. Come to study the nature of fine...
...wanted above all things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod or to grovel before a horrid head of St. John the Baptist. Once, 25 years ago, it attempted to give Salome and Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, the late Mr. Morgan's spiritual adviser,? was so upset that a directors' meeting was called, the opera withdrawn from the repertoire because it was "objectionable...