Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That's the Harvard team I've tried to tell you about. They were battered and beaten away from home. They sweated before the season and during the season. They were weak and powerful. They were great in flashing moments. A stirring greatness at West Point. A day of shame at Princeton. But they are still a team
While the announcer was reading off the starting lineups, Madar checked his scouting equipment, which would put the most meticulous undergraduate notetaker to shame: three red pencils, three blue pencils, a program listing personnel, statistics sheets to be filled out as the game progressed, and a pair of binnaculars...
...patterns of time as intricate as his twining sentences, Faulkner has developed his picture of a society devastated by war-a society that was both honorable and doomed by an inherent guilt. In his view the South was right in insisting on its sovereignty but cursed by the shame of slavery. It had to fight and was doomed to lose...
...witness . . . of the deliberate turning as with one back of the whole dark people on which the very economy of the land itself was founded, not in heat or anger nor even regret but in one irremediable invincible inflexible repudiation, upon not a racial outrage but a human shame...
...trouble." But the researchers noted dryly that "frustrated lovers as a rule do not use effectual methods of suicide." The next largest number, 20, blamed alcohol. Other explanations listed: delusions, 9; family trouble, 7; neurotic complaints, 7; a feeling of "impending disaster," 6; a desire to show off, 6; shame for something they had done, 3; poor housing, 1; "just depressed...