Word: dishonored
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...Dishonor to Government that its Officers should live of Benevolence; as it ought to be Infamous for Officers to dishonor the Publick by being twice paid for the same Business...
...people of Ueno felt that dishonor had fallen on the village, but that May Moon, not they, had caused it. The cold silence of mura-hachibu enveloped the family, a severe form of ostracism in which no one will speak to the victims or aid them except in case of fire or funeral. No one would lend Ichiro tools and he could get no work. But he did not blame his daughter, and she did not blame the villagers. "The chiefs had told them that the village should cast many votes and would not be dishonored," said May Moon. "This...
...turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline would be to repay honor with dishonor. I shall go now to the convention hall and accept the nomination of the Democratic Party...
Franz and Lili Engel, with their little son Bubi, fled Vienna after their shop was bombed, and Franz had spent months in Buchenwald. In a corrupt and decadent Cairo they live in desperate debt, with Franz confined to a wheelchair and Lili enduring insults and dishonor to make ends meet. A fellow Austrian urges them to go back to Vienna. But just then their U.S. visas come through-only for the consulate's doctor to find that Franz' condition, despite his heroic efforts to hide it, is hopeless. Only by swallowing poison can he set his wife...
...organized League of Action for the Esthetic Defense of Florence, marched through the city's narrow streets, waved banners denouncing the modern "skyscrapers." They stopped to boo at particularly offensive buildings, warned Mayor Giorgio la Pira that "to spoil the beauty of Florence is to cover ourselves with dishonor." Cried one demonstrator: "Enough of this chatter! Against reinforced concrete we shall employ dynamite...