Word: groveling
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...captivity. If his physique--once strong and upright, now stooped and limp--recovers from the ordeal, Waddah's psyche will carry some scars forever: the terror of imprisonment, the dread of not knowing whether he would live another day, the degradation of torture and the mortification of having to grovel and plead for his life. "For five weeks, I was less than a human being," he says. "Nobody should have to go through that." The disturbing truth, however, is that many of his countrymen...
...never been passionate about extending membership. It is more the blatant and embraced elitism that makes me wince. It is the 50-year-old stewards who serve these 20-year-old products of privilege; the boundaries of excess that become ever-widened; the women and non-members who grovel at clubs’ doors, reliant upon members for entry, drinks, entertainment, approval; and most importantly, the obliviousness of many members. That’s what makes me cringe—but sadly, not hard enough to make a real social sacrifice.Moral cowardice is an ugly animal, particularly among professedly idealistic...
...endless riches, but I can tell you it has more than its fair share of annoyances. For one, attending three to five hours of meetings each night for several weeks is pretty intolerable. It’s even worse when you have to watch people you once respected grovel at the feet of first-year analysts at these companies, salivating like rabid dogs and pouncing at the first sliver of a business card emerging from their target’s pocket. Collecting that business card is all important because it means you can then e-mail that person and tell...
...allow and encourage Sunni participation. U.S. and Iraqi soldiers died to protect poll workers and voters in extremely dangerous places. Americans are being told that they must now reach out to Europe and bridge the transatlantic gap created by the Iraq war. If I thought that a major grovel might help get real European assistance for Iraqi reconstruction, I might favor a little false humility. But what exactly is the U.S. to apologize for, bringing the first free elections to Afghanistan? To the Palestinian territories? And now to Iraq? The apology should come from those Europeans who have stood...
...with dust. In the center of town listless workers line crossroads with wooden placards strung across their chests reading "carpenter," "electrician," "plumber"?an army of unemployed laborers that locals say makes up 80% of the workforce. City Hall, a dingy building on Democracy Road, is where workers used to grovel at government offices for back pay or undistributed pensions...