Word: kowtow
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...ruminating Henry Wallace was little more sure of exactly where he stood than he is today. He muffed supporting the cause at all for many, many years. He began by teaming up with Peek, but ditched him-or got the President to ditch him -when George wouldn't kowtow to the Happy Hot Dogs who work behind the scenes. Mr. Wallace then surrendered all mental conclusions to Rex Tugwell, who knows as much about the farm problem as Haile Selassie knows about Oshkosh, Wisconsin...
...Chinese Government's officials at Peiping and thereabouts continued to kowtow to a few Japanese brigades last week, much of North China seemed to have been brought under the rule of Tokyo without a fight and by sheer bullying bluff. Suddenly, however, there was plenty of fighting at Peiping last week and behind it loomed the dramatic shadow of "The Scholar War Lord...
...breath, Lord & Lady Bessborough held the "Drawing Room" equivalent in Canada to presentation at Court. Flanked by a galaxy of decorative generals, the Bessboroughs standing on a dais received the curtsies of elite Canadian females as do Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace. In nine other Canadian Provinces subjects similarly kowtow to the local Lieutenant Governor. Only in Ontario does brash, newdealing Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn threaten: "Next time we are going to stop aping all this nonsense!" Next time for "Mitch" will come on Feb. 13 when he may or may not dare to have someone other than Lieutenant Governor...
...care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when we have a superfluity of good things the whole world will kowtow to Russia as to a rich uncle...
...mandarins led in musicians and the bearers of the royal insignia. The new Queen, her hair elaborately wound about a tiara encrusted with precious stones, received the Imperial seal and the golden book. Finally she arose and bowed her forehead to the floor three times, in the traditional Chinese kowtow (pronounced ker-toe) of thanks...