Word: shamed
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...Belli's reaction to the verdict. As TV cameramen clustered around, Belli burst into a ranting tirade. He called the trial "the biggest kangaroo-court disgrace in the history of American law," charged that Judge Brown had made "some 30 errors," denounced Dallas as "a city of shame." He said that the jury, the selection of which had taken a full two weeks, had been "jammed down our throats." He would "stop practicing law," he said, "if we don't reverse this and make the people of Dallas ashamed of themselves...
...actors, particularly Mr. Beard, throw themselves into their "zany romantic comedy" with breathless enthusiasm, and I can only marvel that the tiny cast did not sustain several fatalities in its wild romps through Vermont. I also find it a great shame that this exuberant and refreshing amateur spirit--which could do much for the good of the American cinema--has been so subverted in Hallelujah the Hills by the arty pretensions of producer and director...
...Russia by 1971 would have a chemical industry comparable to any that Western countries have taken decades to build. Said he: "It would be stupid to ignore the achievements of foreign science only because they were made in a capitalist country. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin did not consider it a shame to learn from the capitalists...
...space of a few days, the president and three directors of Petrobras had been fired. Congressional and presidential committees were digging into company affairs. Wrote Rio's Jornal do Brasil: "The situation is a national shame and a menace to the security of the country...
Pursuit of Angst. What happens is a howling shame. Roger is defeated in conversation by an undergraduate "Jewish jackanapes" who enrages him by professing identical opinions. He tests his conviction that "these Yank college girls were at it all the time," and is bitten severely in his fat neck. He bloats with rage after a faculty party when he guessed the word was "effeminately" in a game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged...