Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NOMINATE AS MAN OF THE YEAR, ORVAL FAUBUS, FOR BRINGING SHAME TO THE NATION AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY...
...damn shame the Court had to stir all this up. The Klan was dead till this happened. Nobody talked lynching, and between the Court and the legislature they were even trying to help the niggers some, what we could afford. Now everybody's scared, black and white. They don't talk to you any more. And the shame is that most of those niggers don't want to go to school with white people any more than we do with them. They want good schools, sure. But where the schools are the same, they'll stick together mostly...
...Shame...
...King's death), the new Louis XVI was still hoping to consummate his marriage and father an heir. In Marie Antoinette he had found a tender, sympathetic wife who, though apparently never in love with him, did all she could to aid his efforts and alleviate his shame. Already half mother, half schoolteacher, adolescent Marie Antoinette began slowly to civilize her royal booby. And when at last a minor surgical operation ended their painful frustration, Louis XVI was not only devoted to his helpmate but stood in awe of her brisk self-confidence...
...hangman slipped the noose over his head, said with a shrug, "Such is life," and was dropped to his death. Ever since, the legend of Ned Kelly, the last of Australia's hell-for-leather desperadoes, has lingered on as Australia's private pride and public shame, celebrated in half a dozen movies and retold in scores of paperbacks and biographies. Now Ned Kelly is riding hard across the canvases of young Australian painters set on finding a theme that will stamp their works as authentic Aussie...