Some of these immigrants came by force - shameful part of American history.

That was the shameful part.

I'd like to thank all those academic and genealogical researchers who have opened this window to a dark and shameful part of our past.

Nations tend to write their histories by forgetting the shameful parts.

But Mr. Vercher saw slavery only as a shameful part of the past, and tried to wipe it from his mind.

"It was a pointless exercise and a shameful part of U.S. history," she said in an interview this week.

"That's the shameful part about it," Giants defensive end Michael Strahan said.

And now comes the shameful part.

Was there some shameful part of him that had taken pleasure in the violation?

Nothing could shut him up in council, not even the threat of Odysseus to strip him to his shameful parts ("aidoia").