Word: embarrassedly
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...declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf did not demand. His explanation: "I did not ask for a standing vote because many of the young men were bucking their leaders and I didn't want to embarrass them...
Olympio was right, and four days later the French withdrew with what dignity they could. But what about the Ghana story of a plot? Was it just a trap to embarrass Olympio? In Accra officials said nothing, and Paris thought it best to do the same. Sighed one Parisian official helplessly: "Charmant...
...Fidel Castro's rebel forces against a group of young revolutionary zealots who had occupied the presidential palace. Castro's men so far were resorting to persuasion. Apparently they were meeting with success, for the splinter group of revolutionaries left the palace on orders from their leaders rather than embarrass Urrutia's struggling young regime...
...Forum last Friday night were posed. In presenting Mr. Menshikov, I assume it was the purpose of the Harvard United Nations Council and the Harvard Law School Forum to promote understanding between the two great powers. However, some of the questions were not designed to solicit information, but to embarrass the Ambassador personally. Granted that our society is radically different from the Soviet Union, the question period should not have been used to demonstrate this difference, but to understand it, and possibly to explore interests held in common by the two societies. The fact that some of the questions were...
...Holy Writ to defend their position does not sit well with many ministers-even in the Deep South. But the fact remains that right now the segregationist clergymen are the ones who are doing the loudest talking. In Little Rock, segregationist clergymen are doing their best to embarrass their opponents by taking newspaper ads to ask why the opponents' own churches are not integrated, if integration is what they believe in. Only big ecclesiastical wheels in Little Rock last week dared go so far as to urge the reopening of schools on an integrated basis-Episcopal Bishop Robert...