Word: dishonor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gandhi himself never ruled out violence absolutely and unreservedly. He conceded the necessity of arms in certain situations. He said, "Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...
...think the Sox are cursed because they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920, or that the wobbly 1978 home run in a Sox-Yanks one-game playoff by a guy whose name rhymes with lucky was simply meant to be. To believe such hogwash would be dishonor our fathers. What were they believing in, all those years, if it was impossible? Were they idiots...
...company, "playful, mischievous, bitchy, earthy, and always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented as saint and martyr in the memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961 and, as Podhoretz saw it, her seeming lack of sympathy for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust...
...many black people have fought hard, given their greatest gift--their lives--for you to think, even for a moment, that not exercising the right to vote is an option," Dinkins said. "It is a dishonor to their memories. By not voting and by not being involved, we marginalize only ourselves...
...waits for takeoff, Holbrooke accepts that this mission has at best bought some more time before war breaks out. His words betray a weary resignation: "There's no dishonor in trying and failing to prevent a war." His plane lifts into the air, Serb soldiers ready missile launchers and air-defense guns that ring the airport, while machine guns rattle in the distance...