Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realistic" is the fashion today, but it is hardly realistic for him to talk of national unity when disagreement is so evident high and low. The method he proposes for dealing with "the few slackers or trouble makers" is more realistic but perhaps not very democratic: "first, to shame them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to use the sovereignty of government to save government...
Labels were all mixed up. The New York Daily News went to Webster for a definition of "that shameful word, 'appeasement,' " found in Webster no shade of the shame of Munich. Since Hitler and Stalin's alliance in 1939 had set the style, there had been so many cases of ideologically strange bedfellows that the only strange thing left would be the discovery of two ideas that hadn't slept together...
...sympathy and intimacy of the United States of America. . . . One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians. . . . There lies the tragedy of Italian history and there stands the criminal who has wrought the deed of folly and of shame." How many Italians hearkened to these words no one knows,* but it was necessary for King Vittorio Emanuele to make a plea for unity to his people and for Crown Princess Marie Jose publicly to join the Fascist Party...
Churchill took over: the right man for the job. Then came Dunkirk: a bloody shame...
Anyone who has taken Ec A knows there is plenty of room and time to discuss the problems which confront non-academic economists today. If he is so unfortunate as to have had an instructor who confined his teaching to supply curves, that is a shame. Perhaps there is justification for an editorial fulminating against inadequate section men, whose existence is not confined...