Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothin' but black niggers here on massa's place." And she tried not to think about "sassoborro," the name her ebony-black father--his mouth curled in scorn used to call those with mulatto skin. She was grateful that they weren't there to see--and share--her shame. But she knew that...all anyone had to do was compare her color and the baby's to know what had happened--and with whom.... But before she fell asleep, Kizzy decided...she would never regard him as other than the grandson of an African...
...What a shame then, that no sooner had the decorations gone up than there arose one of those chill Cambridge winter winds, and all the mylar became shredded and began to fall into the street...
...Leadership may come in the future but for now let me say that the German people are happy not to be outcasts anymore, that they can call themselves Germans without bowing their heads in shame. We have rebuilt our nation and we have taken our rightful place in the European community. We are committed to democratic ideals, European unity, and the Atlantic Alliance. We have come out of the desert...
...terrorists escaped with a third man. Dublin launched a man hunt involving 4,000 Irish policemen-half the country's police force-and 2,000 soldiers. Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave declared that "this atrocity fills all decent Irish people with a sense of shame." In London, Prime Minister James Callaghan condemned the assassins as a "common enemy whom we must destroy or be destroyed...
...shame that TIME should feel it necessary to bestow upon its readers yet another display of Bicentennial baloney. What is even more distasteful is its form-red, white and blue cheesecake...