Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question out of the way before the congressional election campaign begins in earnest. He said that if the issue is not resolved by April, "then you can say it is partisan." Indeed, some Democrats would like to have the committee's proceedings drag on into the year to embarrass the G.O.P...
...public worry in the opinion samplings is another of those "petty" episodes that the men in the White House swat as if they were mere flies. Nixon went into a meeting with 16 Governors and told them he knew of no other Watergate developments that would embarrass them. The next day it was revealed that one of the tapes had a more than 18-minute gap and Nixon had known about it. The man who is "somebody very close" had deceived not just 16 Governors but also millions and millions of his people...
...been taken by the Justice Department, but last week, apparently as the result of a leak, Chisholm was forced to answer questions about the allegations. She said that the surplus has long since been spent to pay late-arriving bills and charged that Government investigators are determined to embarrass her because she is "unbought and unbossed...
...reporter from the New York Times observed that after speaking from notes written on file cards, the Mayor-to-be rips the cards into shreds and tosses the unreadable remains into a nearby wastebasket, guarding, one supposes, against unseen enemies who are eager to embarrass...
...President's involvement in illegal or grossly improper acts has become all too familiar. He approved the so-called Huston plan, which permitted illegal means (including burglary) to combat radicals. He established the "plumbers" unit, ostensibly to plug leaks, and it used illegal methods (wiretaps, forgery) to embarrass or spy on political foes. He impeded an investigation of the plumbers on specious national-security grounds while his aides tried to use the CIA and FBI to help the coverup...