Word: slavish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the wicked Revolution has been crushed, M'Fingal concludes, he and his fellow Tories will be nobles, "while Whigs subdued in slavish awe,/ Our wood shall hew, our water draw." Stout Honorius, given a few lines at last (but hardly needing any), merely says, as the town meeting adjourns...
...Millet, art is slavish copying of nature. He lights his lantern and goes looking for cretins. . .imagine a monster with no skull, the eye extinguished by an idiot's squint, straddling in the middle of a field like a scarecrow. No spark of intelligence humanizes this resting brute. Has he been working or murdering...
...amatory adventures whistle by as fast as the gunplay. Writers Huyck and Katz, who collaborated with George Lucas on the screenplay for American Graffiti, are unashamedly infatuated with the myths and romances of old Hollywood but are shrewd enough not to mimic them. Their writing is affectionate, not slavish, and is full...
There were other troubles for the Kremlin to think about. In an extraordinary departure from tradition, the French Communist Party, long marked by its slavish loyalty to Moscow, moved sharply toward the more independent stance of its Italian comrades. In a joint communique issued by French Party Chief Georges Marchais and the Italians' Enrico Berlinguer, the two parties formally endorsed democratic change for their countries free of "all foreign interference" - a clear slap at Moscow...
...remains a mystery; researchers have thus far found no conclusive evidence that they had a written language. But there is ample evidence that the ancient city enjoyed considerable prestige. A political and religious center dug up near Guatemala City shows what Pennsylvania State University Archaeologist William Sanders considers "a slavish imitation of Teotihuacan style." Artifacts unearthed in Belize, 700 miles away, show a similar influence...