Word: shames
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...then, after the pilot shouted over the radio, "He just killed a passenger! He just killed a passenger!" that a hijacker declared, "You see? You now believe it. There will be another in five minutes." When the control- tower operator remonstrated with him, saying, "Isn't it a shame, killing an innocent passenger?" the hijacker replied angrily, "Did you forget the Bir al Abed massacre?" He was referring to the March 8 car bombing in the Bir al Abed suburb of Beirut that killed more than 75 Shi'ite Muslims but failed to hurt Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadallah...
...stickers two weeks ago. During the six-month period of the sentence, offenders are permitted to drive only for work purposes. Most ordered to display scarlet bumpers have done so. But several have appealed, arguing that the judges have exceeded their sentencing authority. "We've lost our sense of shame in this country," responds Judge Titus, "and humiliation as punishment is valid." The Puritans would have applauded...
...method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch gains from this experience a sense of shame, a case of gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies bring to the poor women of Boston...
Schahriah, it is told, was enchanted by the stories. But many moons later -- last week -- the judges of Cairo were enraged by the erotic tales. They said 3,500 copies of two unexpurgated editions of The Arabian Nights must be destroyed. For shame, cried many a citizen of Cairo. "If they forbid all works that speak of sex," said Salah Eissa of the newspaper Al Ahali, "they will be doing damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned...
...which he builds his body count to inestimable levels are well designed and well executed by Director Cosmatos. They are, in fact, so compelling that one tends to chortle in anticipation of Rambo's next superhero ploy, exploding with glee when it exceeds expectations. Oh, well, time enough for shame later, whispers a conscience befuddled by all the noise and excitement...