Word: shames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority...
...Jimmy has vanished like dew. It is literally true that in four days of engaging random citizens and family relations in casual conversation, I never heard the President mentioned until I brought him up. The silence didn't seem a result of gloom, and certainly not of shame or humiliation. Billy's breakfast hangout, the Best Western Inn of Americus, did list crow on the menu of Nov. 5; but that's only consistent with the air of amused and stoic relief that greeted all my inquiries...
What made Roberto pack it in? One explanation is that he knew he was losing-he trailed on all three judges' scorecards-and he let his anger and shame get the best of him. After the fight, Duran offered another reason: he had got stomach cramps during the fifth round, and as the fight wore on the cramps spread into his upper body. "I felt I was weakening," Duran said. "My body and arms were weakening. This happens to anybody. It is an accident. Leonard also was weakening, but I could not pressure...
...going to nail them to history's pillar of shame," predicted Peking's People's Daily. Zhang Youyu, China's most famous lawyer and legal scholar, was quoted as saying that "no sentence could be considered too heavy." He added that "just because we have a principle of leniency does not mean that some counter- revolutionary criminals cannot be sentenced to death...
...fall of stellar performances by Harvard sports teams, the men's soccer team enjoyed one of the best seasons. It's just a shame nobody ever made the trip down to the Business School field to watch...