Word: embarrassedly
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...Your writer uses a form of the word embarrass no fewer than four times in describing Cardinal Mindszenty [Oct. 11]. Perhaps the cardinal has become a diplomatic anachronism. But if we can smugly call a man who endured 23 years of confinement for his convictions an "embarrassment," perhaps we really deserve to be embarrassed more often...
Lost Legs. Glasser's chronicles begin at Zama, where the doctors were surrounded by adolescents whose bodies, for no purpose that they could fathom, had been suddenly mutilated. "They were worried," Glasser observed, "not about survival, but about how they would explain away their lost legs. Would they embarrass their families? Could they go to the beach and would their scars darken in the sun and offend the girls. Above all, and underlining all their cares, would anybody love them when they got back...
BROWN-PRINCETON--At least the Bruins can embarrass themselves away from the hometown fans this weekend. Gary Bonner will run for over 100 yards and Bob Zink may take the Ivy lead in total offenses, but the Bruina will continue to build upon their winless record. Princeton rolled over Penn last weekend. Brown will roll over this Saturday...
...tired of this drain on their time, money and materiel and are eager to concentrate on building their economy?and confronting some 400,000 Soviet troops poised near their borders. Moreover, they no longer fear that the U.S. will emerge from the war in any position that would seriously embarrass the Communist forces...
...When pressed hard, a U.S. embassy official, trying to conceal his own doubts, said that a doctor had been sent to examine him. In that case, asked a reporter, why could not Kissinger be lodged in an air-conditioned room in Islamabad? The reply: Kissinger did not want to embarrass anyone in the capital by his illness. At that point, reporters grew skeptical, but their hunch was that Kissinger had gone to see some East Pakistan officials...