Word: embarass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where he is most vulnerable, but Gramm did poorly, mainly because of all those people who crossed over. If those 300,000 Texans had voted in the Democratic primary instead, most of them likely would have voted for Gramm. That might have given him enough of the vote to embarass Bentsen...
...Harrington says. "But we're in a tough position. It's the same thing in New York, where the civil servants crossed the teachers' picket lines. Now we don't like it. but Vic Gotbaum's our friend. Woodcock's our friend, too. And we don't want to embarass them...
Dwinell was Crooks's last appointment of the day, so now he has a chance to think, and he leans back and looks around. His office is big enough to embarass him; it has a desk, two tables with chairs around them, and views in two directions, and it is not especially homey or cluttered. Crooks is a big, leathery-faced man, and when he stalks around the office he looks the slightest bit uncomfortable...
Hunt was reportedly building a dossier under the supervision of former White House aide Charles W. Colson to embarass Senator Edward M. Kennedy '56 (D-Mass.), then considered the leading Democratic presidential candidate by the White House...
...Ackerman. Watson and Rich Roebuck were left off the traveling list. By now the team was completely split, with Cahalan justifying his position with statements like. "Henry is a world class swimmer and he isn't doing those times now. I just can't have him embarass Harvard at the Easterns." Tim Chetin, Harvard's fastest breaststroker last year, was angry enough to refuse to swim with Cahalan on the medley relay at the Easterns...