Word: embarassing
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...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...
...they are likely to, this winter. He has other weapons than the threat of dropping out of NATO at his command, however, and it will be interesting to see how he uses them. Will France push for Red Chinese admission to the U.N.? Will de Gaulle continue to embarass us in Vietnam? Will France attempt to make our trade relations with the Common Market particularly difficult? The General is acutely aware of the inter-relationships of diplomacy--one chess piece may be sacrificed for another which is not, commonly speaking, on the same board...