Word: shame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enforced by seven years of upper-class education at Harrow, Cambridge and London's Inner Temple, where he qualified for the bar. Already a romantic dabbler in the independence movement, Nehru agreed to accompany some oppressed peasants to their primitive village. What he saw there filled him "with shame and sorrow -shame at my own easygoing and comfortable life, sorrow at the degradation and overwhelming poverty of India." He saw his homeland as "naked, starving, crushed and utterly miserable...
...Shame! Shame! Shame! How could 60 editorial researchers, plus who knows how many proofreaders, make such a horrendous error [as to spell the Philadelphia Inquirer the Enquirer on Nov. 16]? Please keep them all after school and make them write 100 times each: Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Shame. Gleason's troubles began when he appeared as a participant on a television panel show, David Susskind's Open End, with his World-Telegram partner Fred J. Cook. Teamed with Gleason on numerous expose stories, Cook, 49, a World-Telegram veteran of 15 years and a sometime author (The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss), did most of the writing. Husky, broad-shouldered Gene Gleason did most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2--Charles Van Doren confessed in shame and anguish today that he was deeply involved in rigging the defunct "Twenty-One" quiz show. Now he faces possible perjury charges in court and perhaps an end to his television career...
Selected at random, the hapless four were the first of "several hundreds" whom the Finance Ministry plans to expose to publicity's unwelcome glare. But shrewd Antoine Pinay knew his compatriots too well to rely on shame alone: under new Finance Ministry regulations, police mounted guard over the homes of the four artless dodgers, prevented them from going to work, and withdrew their drivers' licenses. "They can appeal," said a Finance Ministry spokesman. "But we are refusing all settlement out of court. And they are all liable to at least six months in prison, plus fine, plus back...