Word: dishonors
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...Asked whether he never wondered about the source of his lover?s opulent lifestyle, he quipped, ?There has always been a perfume of mystery around Madame Deviers-Joncour.? At one point, Dumas declared: ?It is heartbreaking to find myself here ... At my age, to run the risk of a dishonor is an unbearable reality...
...will take more than symbols to rekindle an Olympic spirit dampened in recent times by dishonor and disgrace. And after Atlanta, Sydney was anxious to produce a Games uncluttered by commercialism or catastrophe. If the opening ceremony is anything to go by, it might just succeed. As the helicopters, 47 TV cameras, 110,000 pairs of eyes in the stadium and billions around the world zeroed in on Homebush, it was clear that nothing had been left to chance. "Don't forget to look for your audience leader," the crowd was told before proceedings began, "to know when exactly...
Never mind that POTUS (Belt-speak for President of the United States) himself is not the one charged with doing the harassing - that dishonor goes to the top White House pastry chef, Roland Mesnier, who is alleged to have made unwanted sexual advances toward his assistant dessert-maker, Franette McCulloch, over an eight-year period...
Gandhi himself never ruled out violence absolutely and unreservedly. He conceded the necessity of arms in certain situations. He said, "Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...
...think the Sox are cursed because they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920, or that the wobbly 1978 home run in a Sox-Yanks one-game playoff by a guy whose name rhymes with lucky was simply meant to be. To believe such hogwash would be dishonor our fathers. What were they believing in, all those years, if it was impossible? Were they idiots...