Word: shamed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cambridge YRB (revealed to them in part by the evaluation cited above), the Governor's Committee has decided to delay funding for the Bureau until March, and has cut the new budget by nearly $90,000. Kids in Cambridge could use that money, and it is a shame if they have to forfeit it, apparently because of the doings of a man who drives in from the suburbs to watch them parade past the picture window of his $1200-a-month Mass Ave offices. It is a shame that kids have so few substantive programs in their neighborhoods...
...Upon learning about the end of the war, I could not help but feel a mixture of anger and shame-shame for all of those years and anger to those who raise champagne glasses in lofty praise of peace. I cannot celebrate...
...Parliament, the opposition United Party described the wide gap between black and white wages as "a source of shame." The tiny Progressive Party's only M.P., Mrs. Helen Suzman, demanded: "How much does it take to agitate a black man who has to live on $14 a week?" Labor Minister Marais Viljoen promised that the government would introduce legislation to "encourage" white employers to make greater use of "works committees" to discuss problems with black employees. In a surprisingly conciliatory statement, Prime Minister John Vorster strongly implied that employers had better cooperate. "They should not view their workers merely...
...ceremony. But it is not until the audience is dispersing that Beatrice staggers in. Drunk, dressed like a hallucination out of the thirties, she makes a grand entrance, first paralyzing, then galling the entire assembly. Watery-eyed she chokes, "Mathilde, my heart is full," and her daughter winces in shame...
...cannot express the unutterable shame, guilt and helplessness that I feel upon realizing that I helped put Mr. Nixon back in a position to continue to wage a war -in such a brutal fashion-that everyone admits to have been a mistake in the first place...