Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a year, Venezuela's Castroite F.A.L.N. has committed almost every misdeed in the book to embarrass President Romulo Betancourt. It has cold-bloodedly murdered some 50 policemen, staged an endless series of robberies, hijackings, kidnapings and bombings. Through it all, Betancourt kept a tight rein on his temper; he regarded the F.A.L.N. as a civil police matter, an annoyance to be handled by ordinary criminal procedure. But last week, the F.A.L.N. outdid itself: it took on the army, and Betancourt swiftly declared all-out war against Venezuela's Communists...
Alabama's Governor George Wallace was playing his own particular game. Wallace arrived at the conference snorting that "I just want to raise a little hell." He forthwith introduced a batch of resolutions designed to embarrass the Kennedy Administration-one, for example, would have condemned the Administration's civil rights package as "the most irresponsible piece of legislation ever sponsored by a national administration." But the other Governors refused to go along, and Wallace never brought his resolutions to a floor vote...
...invitation to Teller raised angry protests that it was merely another device to embarrass the President. Conference Chairman Faubus, who had gone along with the invitation to begin with, changed his mind, rescinded the invitation. But Teller was already on the way. Messengers raced to intercept him at rail stations along the way. They missed him. But somehow, it seemed, Teller got the word. He never appeared in White Sulphur Springs and next morning was back in Washington. Teller explained vaguely that he had just gotten tired, decided to turn back, and left the train-just where, he could...
...gentlemen in question were called to testify. The widespread suspicion in Britain is that the defense did not call them because by telling the truth about Ward they would only have damaged his case, and that the prosecution did not call them because it did not wish to embarrass the Establishment. In general, serious observers fear that British courts are assuming, or are being forced to assume, too much authority as an arm of government, and recall the dictum of the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker, during the trial of scandal-mongering journalists after the Vassall spy case, that...
...these Sino-Soviet exchanges were carefully framed to put the blame for the split on the other fellow. Obviously the Chinese never expected the Moscow meeting to succeed, insisted on it merely to embarrass the Soviets. The Kremlin, in turn, could not afford to appear intractable. At week's end the Peking press suggested that perhaps a few of the Sino-Soviet differences could be settled soon, while others could be deferred till later. This simply meant that the Chinese were ready to prolong the quarrel indefinitely. "If the differences cannot be resolved this year," said Peking blandly, "they...