Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then the bureau became more concerned with economy-those were the days of Coolidge and Hoover-than philanthropy. Veterans plunged into race riots. The jobless sold apples, and in 1932 marched on Washington. The Government drove them out with cavalry and tanks while the nation watched in shame...
Canadians would not long be alone in their shame. Canada is a conservative country, with a very small Communist movement. It took no imagination to visualize what kind of a Soviet network was operating in much larger nations, like the U.S. and Britain. One source, in Washington, said that the FBI could crack down at any moment on 1,500 irresponsible secret-peddlers in the U.S. Such a crackdown was probably not far away...
...chair," insisted the psychiatrist, who guessed that it would do John a world of good to sit bolt upright for a change. "Here in this room," he told John, "nothing is shameful. Even if you've believed it is all your life. When you talk about it, John, when you get it out into the open, you'll discover it's not shame." He unscrewed the top of his fountain pen, poised it expectantly over a writing pad. Then John knew that there was no escape, and he began to talk...
Sedate Bob Ramspeck, headed for a vice-presidency of the Air Transport Association of America, at a reported $25,000 a year, made his point more abruptly. He called congressional salaries "a shame and a disgrace," urged a system of retirement insurance...
...will not rest," she cried to her fellow councilors, "until Paris is cleansed of these stinking sewers which are a shame to our country and the world." The stinking sewers were the city's 178 legalized houses of prostitution and 7,000 registered prostitutes, an incorporated iniquity doing a billion francs ($20,000,000) worth of business annually...