Under the guidance of Mrs. Saxon, the school's well-meaning home ec instructor, we girls learned to make brownies from scratch and practiced walking slowly with a book on our heads in preparation for the humiliating term-end fashion show in which we had to model the misshapen garments we had created using paper patterns purchased at the local Woolworth's.
It's hard not to feel that you are about to sign a document imposing humiliating terms of surrender.
It was these words and the humiliating terms of the armistice that drew Hitler to this spot to demand the French surrender in 1940.
In an effort to placate the hard-left faction of his Syriza party, Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said on Saturday that the government was on a final stretch towards a deal but would not accept "humiliating terms".
The humiliating terms imposed on China by the Boxer Protocol in 1901 gave a new boost to Chinese nationalism, paving the way for the collapse of Manchu imperial rule 10 years later.
Moreover the terms of the deal were struck in 1993 when oil prices were low and Russia's weaker bargaining position forced it to accept what it now regards as humiliating terms.Now Shell may be forced to bring in Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas giant, on more favourable terms.
Kenneth Starr, on the brink of quitting the Whitewater investigation, was rebuked by Safire in such humiliating terms that, rather than defy the columnist, he launched the country on the long march toward impeachment.
In large part due to the humiliating terms of the Unequal Treaties, as agreements like those conveyed by Perry are called, the Shogunate soon faced internal hostility, which materialized into a radical movement, the sonnō jōi (literally "Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians").
However, a coalition of foreign troops soon captured the capital, and Cixi was forced to flee the city and accept humiliating peace terms.
When China was defeated by Japan in 1895, Kang mobilized hundreds of provincial graduates then in Beijing to protest against the humiliating peace terms and to petition for far-reaching reforms to strengthen the empire.
The Kremlin last night dictated humiliating peace terms to Georgia as the price for halting the Russian invasion of the small Black Sea country and its four-day rout of Georgian forces.
