Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegation got as far as Strydom's secretary, only to be told that the Prime Minister was out. The delegation dumped their petitions on the secretary's desk and returned to tell the crowd what had happened. From the audience came cries of "Shame!" The leaders then called for 30 minutes of silence as a nonviolent protest. Obediently the women rose, and raised their hands, thumbs turned upward in the salute of the National Congress...
...vote for Eisenhower, but I'm getting thoroughly disgusted with the way lily-livered Republicans hide their heads in shame and horror every time the Democrats make an issue out of what shouldn't amount to a row of pins...
...some of the most side-splitting stage business I have seen in a long while. He is wonderfully abetted by William Roberts' hilarious costumes and ingenious sets. Even the inexpert wielding of the six portable houses on opening night contributed some unintentional farce that it would be almost a shame to refine...
Point of View. In Plainview, Tex., after she was ticketed for backing out of a parking space into an oncoming car, Housewife Sarah Ona Baxter told the judge: "I think it's a crying shame that you give me a ticket and not the man I hit. He could see me backing out a lot better than I could...
...simple lines provide infinitely various opportunities for blocking, for lighting effects, and for wonderful fadeout exits. And O'Hearn has not only made the set beautiful and functional; he has also blended it in perfectly as an integral part of Sanders Theatre. It will really be a shame to see the thing dismantled in the fall...