Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington the spectacle of pork-barrel politics is as unblushing as ever. The ad denounced the farm bloc as "those to whom V means Votes in November." Other culprits: the labor lobby, the anti-labor bloc, the silver bloc, all kinds of blocs. Said the Citizens For Victory, taking shame for the nation: "December 7-Bataan-our sailors gasping for air and drowning in oil-our boys diving their lines out on Jap battleships-all have made no difference. Surely this is not the voice of the real America...
...shame and it's a accident," said the Blot, stumbling down the circular staircase, to the accompaniment of peals of thunder. It was getting darker now. In fact, it was getting so dark you would have thought it was last Wednesday night. Which it was, strangely enough...
Shakespearean Abundance. This failing severely limits the realistic depth of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain does not record "the curiosity, the shame, the torment" of adolescence; and in that particular sense Mark Twain's whole memory of Hannibal is "a libel [on] a full-blooded folk." But "in what he perceived, in what he felt, in the nerve-ends of emotion, in the mysterious ferments of art which transform experience, he was a great mind-there has been no greater in American literature." DeVoto notes the almost Shakespearean abundance of life that floods Mark Twain...
...that if the Senate confirms this nomination, its action will be received with condemnation and shame...
Condemnation and Shame. Said George Norris: "The confirmation or rejection of the nomination of Mr. Meaney is a national question. It is not a local question; it is not a question affecting New Jersey alone, but it is a question affecting the entire United States. The question involved is whether the Hague machine, which is one of the most disreputable, demagogic political machines that ever existed, shall extend its power beyond New Jersey and take in the Federal Government...