Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party in the Winthrop JCR Saturday night, however, Harvard was put to shame when they were out-chugged by the McGill women's team in a five-on-five beer drinking competition...
...Helms indeed recognizes the gravity of his misdeeds. Otherwise, the nation will be left with one lingering image of Richard Helms, that of a jaunty one-time Nixon hatchet man who views his nolo contendere cop-out as a "badge of honor," not the scarlet letter of "disgrace and shame" Judge Parker so eloquently described...
...heart attack; in University Park, Md. After a stint as an essayist for H.L Mencken's American Mercury, Cain moved to Hollywood. Although he failed as a scenarist, his crime stories and novels won critical acclaim for his portrayal of what Cain called "the dreadful, the impious, the shame of God." His adrenal, brooding style influenced later writers, including Albert Camus...
...rich enough to do justice to Shaw's famous study of the poor flower girl. From the first moment when she pleads with passers-by in a beguiling drawl, Moynihan gives a superlative performance. Whether clothed in rags or in a silk robe, she mixes the pride and shame of a woman who knows she is a truer lady than those who only appear to be. She is a yielding Eliza, melting over a bowl of soap "smelling like primroses" but she is also a Liza quick to assert her own worth. "I'm a good girl, I am," Eliza...
...well as plans for dealing with job discrimination and social ridicule. Members also take the opportunity to unload their pain and resentment. Says Goldman: "These are people who never, never before participated in any group. Many just don't interact with people outside their immediate families. The shame runs very deep...