Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been asked what the sailing orders will be. This is going to be a friendly operation. We are not going out with our fists swinging. We are working for a very dignified gentleman, and we don't want to embarrass...
TIME, SEPT. 22, IS UNFAIR AND UNTRUE WHEN IT INSINUATES THAT "LOUELLA PARSONS DAY" IN DIXON, ILL. WAS USED TO EMBARRASS CINEMA STARS ALREADY DATED UP FOR THE LEGION CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE OR THAT "RIVALRY RUINED THE REVELRY "TRUE, MISS PARSONS, AT DIXON'S REQUEST, INVITED CINEMA CELEBRITIES TO COME HERE AND THEY DID, TO HELP MAKE THE GREATEST CELEBRATION OF ITS KIND EVER IN DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS BUT THEY WERE DIXON'S INVITATIONS AND DIXON SET THE DATE MANY MONTHS AGO AND WITH NO INKLING THAT IT INTERFERED WITH THE MILWAUKEE CONVENTION. SO FAR AS DIXON IS CONCERNED...
...patriotism" of political assassins. In Tokyo's Criminal Court last week nine Japanese were convicted of trying in 1939 to dynamite some "conservative statesmen" suspected of pro-British sentiments. Six got suspended sentences. The severest sentence handed down was 30 months in jail. The court did not embarrass the criminals by naming their intended victims...
...Long convinced that the union policy of his competitors was inspired chiefly by their desire to embarrass him, he had seen an opportunity to pay them back, and seized...
This manifestation of censorial logic was interesting. It was easy to see how the information in question could embarrass the Administration politically in dealing with its isolationist opponents. How it could bring any military danger to the safety or lives of Americans to have other nations know that the U.S. is making at least two divisions ready to fight, the Secretary did not explain. He just asserted...