Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed the German character. It has not infused new political strength into these people who can not only be led, hypnotized, to their own destruction, but can actually be made to participate in it. In all the various emotions which the Germans are feeling now-fear, anger, hopelessness, bitterness, shame, servility and helplessness-there is one which you will rarely find and that is a sense of guilt, the sense of being responsible personally and as a nation for what has happened...
Nobody was impressed. Exiled Socialist Indalecio Prieto, last Republican War Minister, who is now in Washington working for a Republican comeback, spoke for the skeptics: "An obvious act of cynical shame. . . . No one can get away with such a double-faced game. Franco will be through the day Germany is defeated...
Burden of Shame. Before the day was out, the plump, myopic Son of Heaven called a trusted Court attendant and Elder Statesman, aging (77) Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, President of the Privy Council, to form a new Government. On the stooped shoulders of this wrinkled old courtier might well rest the shameful bur den of leading Japan to surrender...
...Europe firsthand (Finland, the Low Countries and Russia are just about the only places he has never been). He went to school on the Continent-first in Switzerland, then in Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain. In fact, his mother and three sisters were caught in Leipzig when Hitler declared war on America-went through three of the heaviest bombings there ("The house was like rubber, bending back and forth...
With averted, shame-filled eyes his fellow Frenchmen listened. Swiftly the three judges and 24 jurors, mostly men of the Resistance, rendered their judgment: for Traitor Esteva not death but life imprisonment, confiscation of his possessions. loss of his five stars...