Word: embarrassedly
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...brothers who can most directly embarrass the President. They often vividly demonstrate what else besides potential greatness is swimming around in the gene pool. To reach apotheosis in the White House, the family's paragon has progressed through a series of popular idealizations and magnifications ... and then here comes his brother capering after him, making faces, blowing bubbles, wearing funny hats. It spoils the illusion...
Reagan intervened personally with convention officials to enable NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Hooks to speak at the convention that evening, but only after Hooks promised to say nothing that might embarrass the Republicans. Hooks urged the Republicans to work for full employment, low-cost public transportation and an extension of the Voting Rights Act, which is to expire in 1982. His plea was politely received by the delegates?again on instructions from Reagan's floor lieutenants...
...Tehran, some Western diplomats interpreted the release of Queen as "a good signal," possibly even a sort of trial balloon by Iranian authorities to determine how the populace would react. Others saw the release of Queen as a convoluted maneuver by Iran's clerical establishment to embarrass the beleaguered Banisadr. Observed a senior civil servant: "If Banisadr's rivals in the clergy were indeed trying to prove who is boss in Iran, they did an excellent job." Most Iranians believed that Khomeini, who chose to release five women and eight black male hostages last November, had simply decided...
...addition, Kennedy intends to urge adoption of an "accountability rule" that would require the Democratic presidential nominee-all but certainly Carter-to state in writing any reservations that he may have about the party's platform. At least three planks in the plat form could embarrass Carter. One is a commitment to an is sue he would rather have avoided: civil rights for homosexuals. The platform not only pledges to protect people from discrimination based on "sexual orientation," but also calls for Government action to achieve this goal. The second is a departure from Carter's commitment...
...Carter entered office auspiciously ignorant of foreign policy, and we can only assume Brzezinski's advice produced such evasion. It follows a pattern of ignoring all root causes which would embarrass the U.S., but delving deep into the writings of Marx and Engels in order to reach negative conclusions about any Soviet moves, straining to ignore any defensive motives they may have. Soviet troops never waged war beyond their borders without a rational defensive purpose--which is not, of course, to imply a moral right--until their Afghanistan foray; therefore it would be logical to inquire whether some defensive purpose...