Word: kowtow
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...Trainer. Still, Hubert remained unabashed. He kept on talking, and criticizing, and introducing liberal bill after liberal bill. He suffered rebuke after rebuke, defeat after defeat. Finally, in despair, Humphrey took stock of himself. He had come to Washington to get things done. But his brashness, his refusal to kowtow to his Senate elders, were obviously rendering him ineffective. And late one night, in a moment of truth, Hubert Humphrey confided to a friend: "I'm going to stop kicking my foot against the wall...
...hostility and memories of conflict, which would persist even if ideological differences could be ironed out. Russia has never forgotten the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan, which swept west from Mongolia in the 13th century, conscripting Volga boatmen into the Khan's army and forcing local princes to kowtow. When, after 200 years, the Mongol Empire collapsed, the newly united Russians lost no time in getting even...
...this very refusal to kowtow to popular taste lies one strength of Le Monde-and of Editor Beuve-Méry. The son of a Paris jeweler, Beuve-Méry earned a doctorate of law, went to Prague in 1928, where he became a correspondent for a big Paris paper, Le Temps. The experience was shaking. Beuve-Méry discovered that the news columns of Le Temps, like those of many another prewar French daily, were for hire. After the appeasement...
Becket does not succumb to the temptation to build drab hatbox or birthday-cake buildings; he tries to give each client a distinctive building. Yet he does not kowtow to his client's every wish: when a New York company asked him to design a building similar to Capitol Records', he turned it down on the ground that the building would not fit its needs...
...neat velvety chignons, girls with eyes slanted a little and girls with eyes slanted a lot. Amid all the girls, one stands out in twilight softness. When she first appears, her slow, sloe eyes look down, ever so shy. Then she bounces her head in a pert little Chinese kowtow and the hoarse, sweet husk of her voice sounds hauntingly soft. "Ten thousand benedictions...