Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shame! Shame!" There was passionate talk of starving German children, of unnecessarily cruel treatment, of the "greatest catastrophe the human race ever experienced." Cried Labor's Michael Foot: "We are protesting against the wanton and deliberate creation of a new sore [in Europe]." Charged Independent Sir Arthur Salter: "If . . . millions during this winter freeze and starve, this will not have been the inevitable consequences of [war]." The implication was that Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia were deliberately creating chaos in Germany. One M.P. accused the U.S. of the same "lunatic policy...
Some suggested that Britain send food from her own scarce stocks to Germany. A lone dissenter, thinking of Germany's hungry neighbors, said that he did not care "two rows of pins" what happened to German men, women & children. Tories and Laborites alike shouted: "Shame! Shame...
Already I feel absolutely no shame before you. We are like two married men who meet in a whorehouse." Before the two launch into their scriptwriting, worldly-wise Bergmann says to Isherwood: "You are a typical mother's son. . . . You are innocent. ... I shall proceed to corrupt you. I shall teach you everything from the very beginning...
...Connally War Labor Disputes Act-the great trap which Congress designed to bring John L. Lewis crashing down into captivity-was a confessed failure. Having dug the pit in anger at the series of coal strikes called by Lewis in 1943, Congress was now filling it up in quiet shame...
...Danny's business boomed. From noon until the small hours soldiers, sailors, ex-servicemen and their girls crowded the bar to drink and damn the Bartenders' Union. A commander from the aircraft carrier Enterprise hurried to Danny's to announce that the picketing was a "damned shame." But Danny still had his troubles. Union drivers refused to deliver whiskey, and at times Danny seemed to be sweating slightly as drinkers cried, glass in hand: "You can't give in, Danny!" It was obvious that he couldn't-his clientele had gotten bigger and tougher than...