Word: shamed
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...cyst. Before attending an All Saints' Day Mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd, she told reporters bitterly: "I believe all the devils of hell are against us, but we will triumph eventually." If the news of the coup was true, "it would be a shame for many Americans." The Diem regime, she claimed, had been nearing victory against the Red guerrillas, and now some people were trying to "rob the fruits of victory from the victors with the help of their little friends, whom we all consider as traitors to their fatherland." Would Mme. Nhu seek asylum...
...never have presented themselves: at Harvard especially one would have devoted oneself to one's studies, and kept covert his social activities. Like in the 1960's the doors to sex open early and there are few people who fail to enter them, however loudly older people might cry "shame" from their platforms outside. To an extent, as Dr. Carl Binger has pointed out, this phenomenon pressures people into relationships that demand maturity, before they are fully prepared. Many couples, as well as many individuals, have met with major or minor misfortunes from beginning too young...
...would be a shame to ask the Negro once again to accept a half-loaf measure. The Kennedy bill, however, provides more than half a loaf. It would furnish the means for desegregating public accommodations, for speeding up school integration, for ensuring the right to vote, and for facilitating the voluntary desegregation of housing and employment. It is the most sweeping civil rights measure ever presented to Congress by an American President. It ought to be passed and passed soon; afterwards the gaps it leaves can be filled...
...boots occupy the corners of the rooms. In cabin after cabin, there is a color picture of the President of the United States. Yes, sir, says one oldtimer gesturing to a photo on the wall, "he was a great man, that Franklin D. Roosevelt." And over in the Dirty Shame Saloon, Grocery Store and Gas Station, Proprietor "Buster" Bray, formerly of San Francisco, says: "I wouldn't trade any of this for Third and Market Streets-not ever again...
True, a few families have had a minimum amount of power. Buster Bray has kept the Dirty Shame alight with electricity generated by a diesel Caterpillar in a shed behind the saloon. But "the Monster," as he calls it, has been running night and day for three years. It costs $26 a day, and, when it coughs at night, it wakes up folks for miles around. Bray is waiting impatiently for the rural cooperative to string its power-line to his part of the valley...