Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While French opposition parties cried for explanations, Gaullist newspapers wondered innocently if the American CIA might not have pulled the whole operation in order to eliminate a leftist, and at the same time embarrass De Gaulle. The fact remains that four of the five persons so far in custody for the kidnaping are Frenchmen. That blatant bit of embarrassment must have struck someone in the Elysee Palace last week, for suddenly Paris began "wondering" if Ben Barka was really dead. After all, his body has yet to turn...
...keep its tongue in James Bond's cheek. The setting is Beirut this time, and the man of the Are is David Niven, droll indeed as a middle-aged physician and reckless driver. Photoflash rings, trick fountain pens and the transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none surpass Françoise Dorléac, a wry, loose-limbed...
...which whites and half-castes contributed. Government officials declared that the Bantus had "forfeited the right to sympathy" by their intransigence, denied that they needed any food, lifted Crowther's permit to enter the area. Afrikaans papers began hinting that the bishop had undertaken the food drive to "embarrass" the government. As the holder of a U.S. passport, Crowther is subject to expulsion any time the government wants to undertake such action...
...expect obedience from their priests-and from laymen as well. But many also feel that canon law and the vow of obedience give superiors too much control over their subjects on nonspiritual matters that could and should be left to the individual priest, provided his actions do not embarrass or compromise the church, or violate moral teaching. Says Dr. Eugene Fontinell, a philosophy teacher at Queens College and co-founder of the committee that drew up the letter: "The question is: How do you maintain a healthy balance between freedom and authority? There have been many brilliant theoretical statements made...
...powers before his principles and beliefs." Heath's biting attack, as he taunted Wilson with every promise he had ever made to take over steel, stemmed perhaps as much from his chagrin at the loss of the Tories' best issue against Wilson as from his desire to embarrass the government...