Word: grovelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both of these former Soviet planning chiefs, the one now ambassador to East Germany and the other manager of a factory on the Volga, stepped to the rostrum to grovel. Pervukhin tried to hold back a bit: "Though I was unable to discern the anti-party group's plans, when the group openly raised the question of changing the leadership, I did not agree or support them." Such a qualified confession was not enough. Planning Chief Joseph Kuzmin got up to say that his predecessor had squandered such enormous sums on high-cost hydroelectric and chemical projects that Khrushchev...
Simply glance at it, you grovel...
...pursues her from New York to London with flowers and favors, and, above all, by masterfully playing on her sense of pity-for his pride is so constituted that he can grovel to attain his ends. It is possibly the first time in fiction that a thoroughly unprepossessing man gets a woman to bed by crying a few well-timed tears. Like many suspense stories of a more robust kind, the book does not bear much thinking about once it is put down, but while the story lasts, the reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth...
Down in the harsh bottom land of Crooked Creek, N.C., the sharecropping Negroes grub and grovel in feudal hardship, sustained only by a Bible-quoting parson and their own passive resistance to death, famine and flood - the blind resilience peculiar to those with no hope to abandon except that of heaven. To borrow one of their own sayings, they are "blackgum against thunder," and that is something when a man knows that the blackgum tree is "so hard, when lightnin hit it, is a question of who win, the fire or the wood." The many ways in which the lightning...
...purposes--catching a mate and bearing children. Shaw envisaged women as infinitely superior to the meandering, excitable man; and the conflict between male and female, in his works, is the basis for comedy on a high plane. Not so with Wouk, for his women seem to flounce and grovel around in a prolonged adolescence before they finally settle down, scarred but happy, to a respectable life of breeding. Despite her courageous accumulation of savoirfaire, Marjorie is not a very intelligent young lady. We are asked to have sympathy with her as she plods along the road to conventionality...