Word: embarassments
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...Quincy representative urged the Council to direct its attention to issues that might "embarass the 'powers-that-be'" in an effort to make the Council more effective and "as a demonstration of our disillusionment with present attitudes in the Administration. The Buildings and Grounds department and the University's commercial holdings were suggested as two fruitful areas for attack...
...traffic at the World's Fair tomorrow has stirred a bitter controversy over the tactics of the protest. The proponents of the demonstration point out that the stall-in Would give civil rights groups an invincible bargaining position for their demands on the city administration. A successful protest would embarass the city and in the future the mere threat of another massive traffic snarl would deter thousands from leaving home, decimating the revenues from the fair...
...medical school. Probably out of respect for him, and out of no desire on her part, Gertrude applied to Johns Hopkins. In 1898, a year later than her class, she graduated magna cum laude. Then she went to live in Baltimore, went to annoy and embarass the young men students...
...same is true of the second objection, that no neutral observers were allowed to watch the balloting. Rightly or wrongly, this is a standard Election Committee procedure. Like the unwillingness to publicize election totals, it stems from a reluctance to embarass unsuccessful candidates...
...their eagerness to protect and legislate for one ethnic minority group, a hearty band of Senate liberals seems prepared to jeopardize the rights of all political minorities. If the liberal changes in Senate rules are adopted when the 86th Congress convenes Wednesday, the amended procedures may someday embarass their creators and doom some of their favorite legislation...