Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representative of the appliance industry, I wish you had added to the stature of your report the obvious need for adequate, authorized, qualified schooling in our high schools to train service people. I think it is a crying shame that some of our schools today continue to teach our youngsters such outmoded activities as setting type by hand, for instance, when there is such a desperate need for trained people in the mechanized, automated, electronic world...
Itzig claimed "It's a shame that membership in the NSA hasn't worked out well for Harvard in the past few years." Previously, the school had played a large part in the organization, but now there is apathy in the student body, he concluded, and something ought to be done to encourage interest in the organization...
With prospects for a winning season having increased with wins last week over Williams and Wesleyan, it seems a shame that the varsity squad must play on an unkempt, windswept, sloppy hardpan like the Business School field. Through lacking the tradition which shrouds college football, college soccer, played under decent conditions, could easily prove what a first-rate sport...
...fusion of meanings. To the three young University of Alaska scientists who be came the first Americans to see it, the Soviet satellite appeared "like a star and brighter than Jupiter." To Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, it was a partisan reason for proclaiming "a week of shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind...
...unpleasant way. A forest fire burns down her house, and she winds up in the middle of a beaver pond, riding on the back of a bobcat. On top of all this, Perri will probably not get much sympathy from the critics. But it will be a crying shame if she and her helpless colleagues don't get some vigorous sympathy from the A.S.P.C.A...