Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Face red with fury, Kennedy shouted: "I am appalled at this attempt to misappropriate the memory of my brother[s] . . . If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would be the first person to say that Hoover's reckless campaign against Martin Luther King was a shame and a blot on American history...
...pragmatic inevitability, but a shame, that money woes should threaten the innovative new programs at the Ed School, because if schools like this are forced to limit their projects, then all that will be left to future graduates of the deteriorating American school system will be a pile of yellowed reports, journalists' and politicians yellowed speeches, and articles--a pile which fewer and fewer will be able read...
Sunday was a disappointment for both teams because horrible officiating turned a potentially great match into a farce. Reed said, "I think it's a shame that under these circumstances the refs were son nervous and intimidated. They couldn't handle the pressure ... I asked one how many time-outs I had left and after a long discussion he confessed that he didn't know. I just threw up my hands and started humming the theme from the Twilight Zone." One Brown player commented. "They [the referees] should have...
...start instead with Martin Luther King, who saw where boycotting segregated buses might lead, or with Gandhi, whose example taught King the tactics of civil disobedience? Or rather were the civil rights laws of the 1960s passed because of a general and amorphous sense of national shame to which Parks and King served merely as goads? U.S. civil rights legislation mattered very much to Americans; will it have mattered to the rest of the world? Will America have mattered to the rest of the world after a hundred more 60-year periods have vanished, and will we stand in regard...
...Truth and Shame...