Word: embarrassedly
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...they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing his old party rivals as associates of the hated Stalin. The fact that he himself had been a Stalin crony apparently did not embarrass Khrushchev. Who in Russia dared point this...
...bobby-soxers' sideburned golden calf, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (All Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow...
...said, 'I don't want to scare you. All I want to be is left alone.' He talked a little more and he got red in the face, and he said, 'If you bother my two boys, if you embarrass my two boys, you will find yourself wading across Lake Washington with a pair of concrete boots.' " The two boys: Teamsters' Organizer Clyde Crosby and Multnomah County District Attorney Bill Langley (who is still in office although under indictment for malfeasance in office...
...defied the ban-Edmund Stevens of Look and William Worthy Jr. of the Baltimore Afro-American-made ready to invoke open hearings to fight the State Department's move to revoke their passports. Said Worthy, back in the U.S. after 41 days in Red China: "I want to embarrass the hell out of the State Department." The American Newspaper Publishers Association formally entered into the issue by sending to the President and the Congress a weighty resolution protesting curbs on "travel in any country with which...
...What such hand-wringers failed to realize was that, in any partisan effort to embarrass the Administration, they might make a record for the Democratic majority that Democrats, as well as Republicans and the whole U.S., would regret for years to come...