Word: shame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jurists' commission does not try to make international law. It concentrates on specific violations of civil liberties. It sent observers to the political trial of Yugoslavia's Milovan Djilas and to South Africa's mass treason trial, and believes that their presence may have helped to shame the prosecution into redrafting the flimsy indictments of the 91 defendants in the South African trial. To New Delhi Britain sent a high-powered delegation that hoped, in after-hours talk, to impress on lawyers who had come from newly independent Commonwealth countries the need for strict constitutional limitations...
...face of dictatorship in Cuba was the padlock on Havana University, the bodies dumped on street corners by casual police terrorists, the arrogant functionaries gathering fortunes from gambling, prostitution and a leaky public till. In disgust and shame, a nervy band of rural guerrillas, aided by angry Havana professional men (plus opportunists with assorted motives), started a bloody civil war that cost more than $100 million and took 8,000 lives. Last week they smashed General Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship...
...funnel their proceeds to other missions deeper into the backlands. "I'm liable to do some Bible-pounding myself,'' he says, "and boy, they sure could use encouragement. I saw a lad here trying to read a Portuguese Bible-upside down. It's a shame, when you think of folks at home who know how to read but never even open the Bible...
Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated aun-tique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame...
Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated auntique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame...