Word: shamelessness
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...deprived of Relief even if the Federal Government had to provide 100% of its cost, a moral brake would be placed on spending. Senator Byrnes presented tables to show that the financial condition of States and cities has materially improved since 1933, argued that his requirement would prevent shameless attempts to raid the Federal Treasury. At the White House the President retorted by telling newshawks it was unfair to make communities take a "pauper's oath" to obtain Relief grants...
...Ashburn, but few of them faced such problems as beset homely, bald-headed Charlie. Charlie was in love with a vivacious college girl named Marian Parks. His older married brother Morris also loved her. Marian, although she was friendly with both, loved neither. Morris wife complicated things by making shameless love to high-minded, honest Charlie who became her lover. Charlie, whose ideal in life was expressed in Longfellow's lines, Make a house where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean, found his adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died...
...going to marry her friend Melanie, another thoughtful and isolated soul. Scarlett got Ashley alone at an all-day barbecue on a neighboring plantation, asked him to marry her, counting on her looks and his chivalry to make him do it. He refused. Then Scarlett found that her shameless offer and his humiliating refusal had been overheard by a wicked man who despised Southern chivalry. Until this point, after more than a hundred of its many pages, Gone With the Wind is pretty hard going. But in Rhett Butler, Author Mitchell creates a character to match Scarlett, gives...
...proud and poor to do anything about it, but Beverly wangled him the job of city doctor. When he got an appointment as surgeon at the hospital he had his hands full. Women found him attractive. Katie, his landlady's slatternly but provocative daughter, had a particularly shameless desire for him, was always underfoot till he sent her off to be a trained nurse...
...unrecognizable since the skin has been burned from their faces." Added Lord Cecil: The Italians have been proven guilty of bombing Red Cross units and have just destroyed the open city of Harar. These bombing 'outrages' might conceivably be due to mistakes, but the horrible and shameless use of gas must have been organized and authorized. . . Gas is not a product we are likely to find on the coast of East Africa. It must have been manufactured for the deliberate purpose of bombing unprotected bodies of the Ethiopian population...