Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seriously," Lewis added, "we are not going to be vicious or try to embarrass our guest. By agreeing to come up to Boston for one afternoon she has already showed that she is quite a good sport...
...Perhaps Congress could embarrass the manufacturers into providing standard safety equipment by requiring them to label all new cars, "Caution: automobile driving may be hazardous to your health...
Culler is too often guilty of simply showing off the great names, when the pieces written by these men would probably embarrass them today. Leonard Bernstein '39 wrote music columns for the Advocate, so Culler has included one of them in which Bernstein knocked Columbia Records; he was given to college boy chattiness, concluding paragraphs with phrases like "end of tirade" or "Thus Spake Zarathustra." Arthur Schlesinger Jr. contributed political analyses, so a piece predicting a Republican comeback in 1940 has been re-printed. Presumably, the reader is supposed to be delighted with this gentle irony, amused by a posterior...
Sure enough, when Kauffmann arrived at the theater with 1,100 other ticket holders, he found a dark marquee and a sign that read TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE CANCELED. Was this an ambush, calculated to embarrass the Times's critic? No, Merrick's press-agent explained: a generator was out of order. That seemed funny: although the marquee was blacked out, the lobby lights were blazing...
...with the chairmanship of the party he rode (or carried) to power, the Christian Democratic Union. Canny old Konrad Adenauer clung to the job even after he stepped down as Chancellor nearly three years ago at the age of 87, and has used the post to embarrass his rotund successor with anti-Erhard maneuverings inside the party. Last month, Adenauer decided at last to give up the C.D.U. chairmanship, hoped to install a candidate sympathetic to his policies, preferably Interior Minister Paul Lücke, in the balloting at the C.D.U. convention next month...