All 5 Uses
infamy
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- A bunch of the guys were all in somebody's den, listening to a football game on a big Halson radio, when the voice of President Roosevelt interrupted and started talking about a date that would live in infamy.†
Chpt 2.
- The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God!†
Chpt 3.
- But after the "day of infamy," newspaper maps of the Pacific and Asia were scrutinized at the kitchen tables of America.†
Chpt 3. *
- They bombed on a Sunday, we went to school on Monday and they piped in President Roosevelt's 'Date of Infamy' speech.†
Chpt 3.
- As it happened, this flag—which at ninety-six by fifty-six inches was a good deal larger than the one now planted on the mountain—had been found in a salvage yard at Pearl Harbor, rescued from a sinking ship on that date which will live in infamy.†
Chpt 11.
Definitions:
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(1)
(infamy) famous for something that is bad; or an extremely bad event
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)