Word: shamelessness
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...written: "It was originally and is still, even in its ruins, the noblest public square in the World."† The women, with faces on which an absence of reverence could be descried, stood before the three great mosques facing the Registan, mocking the commands of Mohammed by their shameless presence. Soon the venerable priesthood emerged rampant, the effect of their imprecations being enhanced by the fact that in Samarkand old men dye their beards pink with henna...
...Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, William Edgar Borah, growled that the Administration seems to be looking for grounds on which to commence "a shameless, cowardly little war with Mexico...
...have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah of Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another. Let peace be between us, my brother, although your shears are impudent...
...perfectly clear that that which is demanded can only be secured in one of two ways, either by repeal of the 18th Amendment or its complete and shameless violation, its utter nullification...
...history of their captive. His fluent Spanish rose naturally to the lips of a Riffian born in easy circumstances, the son of a Judge, who until about 1917 served as a clerk in the Spanish Oficina Indigena (Bureau of National Activities) at Melilla and grew incensed at the shameless corruption of Spain's administration of northern Morocco under the protectorate convention...