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Word: shamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be a shame if Dean Epps chooses undergraduates on the basis of their lineage rather than their merit, but it is equally sad to see undergraduates craving fairness that would denigrate their individuality...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: An Unhappy Birthday | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

...name of this friend has been changed to keep shame from his mother...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: The Kult of Kemp | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

...Simon's double edge is at his keenest here, using a country boy's dream mansion, which turned into a mausoleum, as an ironic counterpoint to Homeless, sung a cappella with South African Gospel Group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The rhythms washing over Graceland are infectious and inflective enough to shame rap silly, from the lovely, funky arc of Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes to the spooky snap of The Boy in the Bubble. African musicians appear on nine of the album's eleven tracks, but Simon has pulled off something much more here than a little groovy ethnomusicology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Simon: Tall Gumboots At Graceland | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...certainly is a shame that more students will not be able to meet him personally," Coletta said. However, Coletta dismissed complaints by some of the students who weren't chosen. "It's up to the 350th office to preselect if they feel that choosing people with whom the Prince would have something in common will make his visit more enjoyable...

Author: By Gregory R. Schwartz, | Title: Only 49 Students Will Chat With Charles | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...lives in West Berlin. "Then they made it more and more perfect with an inner wall and cleared earth between them like a desert war zone." This unique piece of architecture is known among East German officials as the "antifascist protection wall." West Berliners call it the "wall of shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Tale of a Sundered City | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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