Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large, loosely organized Christian Democratic Party also contains some dubious figures who frequently embarrass...
Wayne C. Grover announced. Sealed for another 25 years: papers that might embarrass the living, or prejudice U.S. relations with friendly foreign powers...
...Conservatives and Liberals in country districts fought it out with knife and gun (TIME, June 6). Conservatives could not understand why Ospina himself did not use force to win the election. Liberals, fearful that a Conservative triumph now would lead to a Conservative presidential victory next year, tried to embarrass the President by withdrawing their men from his cabinet...
...Capitol Hill scurried ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who had spent anxious months justifying the appropriations. To Republican Leader Joseph Martin and Republican Tightwad John Taber, Salesman Hoffman made an urgent, timely appeal. The cuts, warned Hoffman, would embarrass Secretary of State Dean Acheson at the Big Four conference in Paris. Hoffman's proposition: let the cuts stand, but let ECA come back for more at the end of 13½ months instead of the 15 months originally intended...
Background Material. In Manhattan, when Waiter George Tucker was fired because his boss thought that Tucker's urge to write a novel might possibly embarrass patrons, New York State Mediation Board Arbitrator Sidney A. Wolff handed down the ruling for his reinstatement: "To deny a would-be author employment . . . might well stifle literary and creative genius...