Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...prospects looked still brighter when the No. 3 man in the primary, ex-Governor James Noe, one time Huey Long lieutenant, came out for him. A few minutes after Noe's swing was announced, distraught Governor Long called a special session of the Legislature, hurriedly pushed through some abject vote-getting bills-repeal of the sales tax that has loaded Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, repeal of the tax on gasoline used by boats, which has made Louisiana fishermen grind their teeth, statutory opening of the books of the State bond and tax board for examination...
...jaws of peril, Finland shows what free men can do. . . . There, exposed for all the world to see, is the military incapacity of the Red Army and of the Red Air Force. . . . Everyone can see how Communism robs the soul of a nation, how it makes it abject and hungry in peace and proves it base and abominable in war. ... If the light of freedom which still burns so brightly in the frozen North should be finally quenched, it might well herald a return to the Bark Ages when every vestige of human progress during 2,000 years would...