Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejoice in our sobriety. At a recent dinner dance at a newly dedicated Al-Anon Club, a woman was heard to remark that it was not she but her husband who had been the problem drinker. She herself had never tasted alcohol in all her life. "Oh, what a shame," replied a veteran boozer sadly. "Then you'll never know how good it feels to recover...
...consigned by the transcribers to the thankless role of a suck-up straight man--rises to Nixonian heights of sarcasm. "We were bugged in '68 on the plane and in '62 even running for governor--[expletive deleted] thing you ever saw," Dean's boss tells him. "It is a shame that evidence to the fact that that happened in '68 was never around," Dean replies...
Troy's expertise has given his paper an impact well beyond its meager circulation (all but nine of Oklahoma's 149 legislators are paid subscribers; Troy sends the holdouts complimentary copies). Some of his crusades have brought tangible results. His story on the "shame of Oklahoma" prompted Governor Hall to end a barbarous solitary-confinement system at the Oklahoma state penitentiary. His demands for tax reform finally helped to produce legislation that included the state's first income tax on dividends paid by Oklahoma-based corporations. At the bill-signing ceremony, Governor Hall handed Troy...
...with full respect for traditional civil liberties--violently overthrew Salvador Allende's peacefully elected government and established a reign of terror, bloodshed and repression that still continues. Elsewhere in the world, most notably in Greece and Thailand, struggles for freedom have overturned governments, to this country's shame usually against American opposition, but with effects whose significance is nonexistent or problematic...
...Clare Boothe Luce, I love you-and Richard M. Nixon too! Shame on TIME...