Word: kowtow
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...made obeisance to his uncle (the King he once deposed), in return got back all his decorations and his yellow umbrella. Phetsarath was delighted to be home, smiled and nodded regally when his sarong-clad countrymen offered him hibiscus blossoms and accorded him the full-length, prostrate kowtow he had been accustomed to receive before...
...prince was miffed at certain smart-alecky, democratic customs now prevalent in Vientiane (including the fact that the kowtow is going out of fashion) and was also upset, he said, to see that his brothers, Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong, were not settling their difficulties...
...before the convention stepped Chicago Daily News Publisher John Knight, who denounced the press in President Juan Peron's Argentina for "kowtowing before the dictator for the dubious privilege of earning a living." One Argentine editor who refused to kowtow could not attend the I.A.P.A. meeting at all; he had to send in his report. David Michel Torino, owner of Argentina's well-named El Intransigente, was not allowed out of the country by Peron's police. Three years ago he was thrown in jail for "disrespect" of the government. Last September, after his release, an I.A.P.A...
Army Career. Egypt's tiny army, a bare-bones auxiliary to Britain's Middle East garrison, had little to offer its peacetime subalterns except barracks-room blues and $1.65 a day. Promotions came slowly for those who, like Naguib, refused to kowtow to palace lackeys. So Naguib assuaged his boredom by taking courses in law and political economy. He also taught himself to speak German, French and Italian as well as fluent English. (He is currently learning Hebrew...
...literature, but the hard facts of life make them behave like ordinary businessmen. Crowded into a corner, they reluctantly admit that 'first-rate creative writing makes for risky publishing ventures, that to remain solvent they must stay off Parnassus and scurry about the market place. The shrewdest ones kowtow to a composite little woman. The best studies and most educated guesses indicate that she is a high-school graduate of about 35, and that one out of three of her class has been to college. Publishers and booksellers regard her with brooding affection because she buys about three-quarters...