Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen-year-old Coed Bui Thi Oanh was one who did not survive. Voltaire and Confucius confounded her, and she failed her baccalaureate. In shame and despair, she swallowed 40 quinine pills and died. Since her death several other teen-age rots have committed suicide, and last week one enraged rot attacked his mathematics examiner in the street...
Britain: Laborites in the House of Commons cried "shame" at word of the U.S. landings, but Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell rejected the demands of leftist Laborites for a Commons vote on the issue of British support. Two days later, when Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced the dispatch of British paratroopers to Jordan, Labor again demanded a vote, and left itself wide open for a shrewd riposte by Macmillan: "If it is not right to vote against America, why is it right to vote against Britain?" The censure of British intervention was defeated...
This time Britain as a nation did not divide, as it had done at Suez, between those who puffed out their chests in pride and those who lowered their eyes in shame. Many who thought Anthony Eden's war on Nasser a senseless, immoral act regarded last week's moves, even if dangerous, as legal and justified. At week's end the British also landed a 400-man Royal Marine commando at Tobruk, Libya, near Egypt's western border...
...whole again"), Cathy's "dream" aria in which she confesses her love of Heathcliff. Audience reaction was tepid; "I liked the movie better," said one mink-draped woman. But professionals in the audience cheered. Said Metropolitan Opera Board Member Howard J. Hook Jr.: "This puts the Met to shame. How come we let Santa Fe steal a march...
...somewhat surprising-raking-over in Tokyo last week. On display at the Shirokiya Department Store went more than 70 foreign-made products alongside Japanese copies so cleverly done that only an expert could tell which twin had the patent right. The purpose: a campaign by the Japanese government to shame businessmen out of pirating foreign designs. Said the Ministry of International Trade: "This exhibit is an appeal to the Japanese people's conscience...