Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long hours (all night in the Senate Wednesday), obstructionist tactics and partisan maneuvering caused many tempers to snap. "Shame on the Senate! Shame on the Senate!" cried Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy after the upper chamber dropped the civil rights bill. Barry Goldwater stormed that because of haggling over the catch-all spending bill, Senators collectively were "beginning to look like jackasses"; his Republican colleague, Wyoming's Malcolm Wallop, wondered why the Arizonan had only said "beginning." In the House, Democrat James Jones embarrassed the G.O.P. by introducing a plan requiring Presidents to submit each year a budget proposal that...
...three journalists on the panel, and told America there should have been four. Why weren't there, Barbara? Because out of the 112 names submitted by the sponsor of the debate, the League of Women Voters, to the two campaigns, they could agree only on these three. For shame...
...with stars and promote it as another prime-time breakthrough. As drama, these TV crusades have such familiar faults-too simplistic, too preachy, too ponderously "educational"-that a good one can easily get lost in the shuffle. In the case of The Burning Bed, that would be a shame...
...team that had started to play very well," Thompson said "It's a shame they didn't have a chance to play...
...gear my game around trying to hit forehands," Smith said. "I can hit the ball a lot harder than most people and it's a shame to give that advantage away...