Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shame. But for Douglas MacArthur the future looked dark. The best he could reasonably hope for was that he and his men could hang on, delay the Jap, perhaps effectively hamstring some of the forces that the enemy hopes to use on a more important strategic position: Singapore. For want of airplanes, MacArthur had been forced to a bitter decision: make the enemy pay for what he gets...
Said onetime isolationist Editor Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News: "That Colonel's cry . . . should shame and humble every American on the home front. . . . Too much has been said, too many tears shed about the loss of a few ships and some scores of planes at Pearl Harbor. . . . Too little has been said about the much worse blunder of failing a year ago to convert automotive and other peace industries to defense production. By that failure we have lost a thousand planes and tanks and ships for every one lost at Pearl Harbor...
...deaf, mostly sat, with a bewildered smile, muttering over & over to all those who pleaded with her to change her vote: This might be a Roosevelt trick. How do we know Hawaii has been bombed? Remember the Kearny! I don't believe it. In Montana, Republicans raged, cried shame...
...SHAME ON TIME FOR DISTINGUISHING PETTY'S INDECENT VULGAR DISTORTIONS OF FEMALE FORM BY COVER PUBLICATION. MISS HAYWORTH'S PHOTOGRAPH SURELY SUFFICIENT. # Chief Boatswain's Mate. LET SUCH CRUDENESS STAY IN ADVERTISING WORLD WHERE SANE PEOPLE CAN IGNORE...
...implications." From then on she and the hero spend much of their time "on some plane high above all other people in the world in a kind of sulphurous glory, the devastating bond between two purely sensual people who had no sense of sin and knew no shame...