Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Difficult as it is for a native Texan to admit anything unfavorable concerning his state, I am afraid that your article relative to the discrimination against Mexicans was a body blow. I blushed with shame after reading it because I knew too well how true it was. A majority of the people of this state feel that the only good Mexicans are dead...
Speaking of subways, it's a shame to leave now that we've finally realized that you can go two at a time through the Holyoke Street turnstile...
...anniversary of shame, and the Senate Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, D.D., offered a special prayer for tolerance...
...Japanese infamy and American shame, Dec. 7, was celebrated in Japan. In the U.S., Congress had asked the President to designate Dec. 7 as "Armed Services Honor Day." The President vetoed the Joint Resolution. "Future events will ordain the proper date for such a commemoration," promised the President. The nation seemed to sustain the veto...
...Didn't!" This sort of thing had happened before, and OWI, expressly created to keep the U.S. informed as rapidly as possible about war developments, had often promised that it would not happen again. The U.S. press went after Elmer Davis. Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken. Barked mild-mannered Mr. Davis: ". . . flagrant and possibly dangerous breach.... I hope . . . you will take steps to make sure that British censorship . . . keeps Reuters in line." Before a critical House of Commons Brendan Bracken indirectly replied...