Word: dishonor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tiempo said, "not a cave of thieves but the major victim of the international drug trade." Potent as their words were, more potent still was the harrowing image of Pulido cut down on his way home from an honest day's work in a land ravaged by dishonor...
More importantly, however, readers are sure to be disappointed by the book's ending, which Clancy reportedly wrote in one night. On the one hand, it is entirely too tidy to be believable. On the other, its message--of death before dishonor--is too much like the super-patriotism many readers have found offensive before...
Vindicate. vt. To free from any question of error, dishonor, guilt, or negligence...
...released before July 15, but in making his announcement he followed the historic dictum of cagey generals engaged in losing battles: declare victory and leave the field. Whether the chief law-enforcement official of the U.S. is thereby "vindicated," that is, absolved from any question of error, dishonor or negligence, is still very much unresolved...
...relief also happened to hasten the end of her life, that is something a physician could live with. Pediatrician Kathleen Nolan, an ethicist at New York's Hastings Center, reports that several of her young patients, suffering terribly from cancer, died in this way. Says Nolan: "There is no dishonor...