Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This vote was bemoaned by many in the Council, who agreed with William J. Dean '59 that "it is a shame that we are so indecisive." John F. Maher '60 called the cessation of activity "another surrender of responsibility," and asked, "What will be left to us but running errands for Dean Watson...
...tobaccoland farmers are howling. In North Carolina, where two-thirds of U.S. cigarette tobacco is grown, the state senate recently urged Congress to order that cigarette ingredients be stated on every package. Complained State Senator Henry G. Shelton: "What is happening to the cigarette is a shame. It is scrap tobacco at one end, cellulose at the other and tissue paper all around...
...sets up in business. In addition, Germany agreed to deliver $822 million in goods and services to Israel over a twelve-year period; and individual indemnifications to Nazi victims may total $1.5 billion. No one argues that this is payment in full. But Jewish organizations agree that "the shame factor" is widespread. "The local railroad-ticket seller," said one embarrassed young man in Bonn last week, "knows I am a Jew and fairly leaps to take care of me first when I'm standing in line. I guess he was a guard in a concentration camp once...
...punch out a random series of notes vaguely reminiscent of the chicken-pecking school of composition. From time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps the most gifted of the current undergraduate composers, would consent to slum in such a stunt...
...Still," replied Ilka Chase (the cruel stepmother), "it's a shame to spend so much time for just one 1½-hour show." Said Edith (Daisy Mae) Adams, the Fairy Godmother: "Why, Ed Sullivan has just one full rehearsal and you NEVER know-where you are." She twirled a baton-"Gotta get in shape with my magic wand" -then skipped off to sing her one number, Impossible ("for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage...