Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago she reviewed the President's statements about the danger of war from 1937 ("quarantine") to Pearl Harbor and charged: "He is the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it. ... The shame of Pearl Harbor was Mr. Roosevelt's shame...
...miracle that would make available to us the greatest man in American public life for at least a generation: Wendell Willkie. It is not one of the least ironic facts of our "greatest democracy on earth" that in one way or another we have either assassinated, rejected or shamefully repudiated the greatest democratic leaders this country has produced-among them Lincoln, Wilson and Willkie. We believe the worst that history will be able to assay against Willkie is that he lived out of his era. And whose shame is it if the American people had not the discernment and vision...
...will be an everlasting shame if the American people do not do something for the families of General Lesley McNair and his son who within a few weeks of each other gave their lives in the service of their country in time of war. I have read the article in your Aug. 28 issue in which you say that General McNair left an estate of only $2,720. Surely this must be the strictly legal estate and there must have been some insurance in addition. Nevertheless, I am sending you herewith a small check [forwarded to Mrs. McNair...
...That the greedy, irresponsible and covetous authors of such statements are U.S. Senators is, it seems to me, cause for every American to bow his head in shame...
...reformed loafer named Liu confessed that he had once been the district's champion erh-lü-tze. His wife & children left him for shame. Then reform seized him. Now he had ample livestock, 21 acres under cultivation. His family was home again. His village had elected him the local "hero of labor." Overwhelmed, the 63 erh-lü-tze hit the sawdust trail...