Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important bill, S. 1825, The Medical Reclassification of Marijuana. This legislation would make it possible for patients afflicted with cancer or glaucoma to abtain prescriptions for marijuana. Given the testimony of medical researchers as to the relief this drug can provide for some patients, it seems a shame that those patients are barred from relief on account of our society's general disapprobation of non-prescription, non-medical uses of the drug...
That is a shame, because they miss Freddie Lynn's 39th homer of the year, a frozen rope to right-center in the eighth which brings home Sizemore and ties up the game. Nobody really wants to stay for extra innings against the Blue Jays at the end of the year, and Pudge Fisk complies by clubbing the first pitch of the bottom of the ninth somewhere near Kenmore Square. As Yogi Berra once said, "It ain't over 'til it's over." Well, it's all over: Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 5. They can let the grass grow...
...promises to balance the budget (world record: most daring fiscal pronouncement) and not to import an additional barrel of oil (U.S. record: optimism) have put him in embarrassing binds. So did his pledge to hold all those news conferences, which were designed to break some kind of record and shame the reclusive Nixon...
...FEAST YOUR EYES; but American readers, close yours. Strobe Talbott's Endgame, a chatty account of the second phase of the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT II), will bore all but eager Soviet intelligence agents and the hardiest of cocktail party devotees. And that's a shame because buried below all the gossip, Talbott offers some perceptive explanations of the nuances of superpower bargaining...
...leave Viet Nam because it was a lost war; we left because it was a wrong war. To hint at anything else is a doomed attempt to hide from the shame that we should all feel in being part of such an atrocity. We should praise the Haydens for serving to remind us and keep us from further evils...