Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simeon D. Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced that a conspiracy was afoot to embarrass the administration through the stock market. What evidence did he cite for this belief...
...urine samples were proved to have been contaminated after they had been excreted; this showed that the samples had been doctored by someone. The evidence thus suggests that Silkwood had purposely contaminated herself and had probably smuggled a minute amount of plutonium home from the plant. Why? Perhaps to embarrass the company and thus strengthen the union's bargaining position at negotiations late last November. Or perhaps Silkwood was emotionally unbalanced...
Much of the reporting is flawed by errors of fact, interpretation and judgment that would embarrass even an undergraduate economics major. Few reporters note that current unemployment figures are not strictly comparable with those of earlier years because Government statisticians in the 1960s changed the way they define the work force. Similarly, many publications and broadcast outlets trot out the consumer price index monthly as if it accurately reflected everyone's inflation burden today. In fact, it reflects a market basket of goods and services required by less than 50% of all Americans. The base period for comparison purposes...
...national chairman, he struggled to unify a shattered party and so became the prime Watergate target of Nixon's burglars and buggers, as well as a victim of the outrageous theory that he had known about the Watergate break-in in advance and permitted it in order to embarrass the Republican Party. Still, O'Brien confesses, "the three worst months of my life-a nightmare" were spent in George McGovern's dismal 1972 campaign...
...with Soviet leaders. The Palestinians also cracked down on dissidents responsible for the skyjacking of a British Airways VC-10 whose crew and passengers were released earlier in the week. The four Arabs who had seized the plane to obtain the release of Palestinian prisoners and also embarrass the more moderate P.L.O. were detained in a Tunisian jail. P.L.O. agents swooped down elsewhere to grab 26 other dissidents. They were accused of supporting a breakaway group called "the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine," which opposes any settlement short of destruction of Israel...