Word: embarrassedly
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...tactics were not, SDS's goal was clear: embarrass McNamara. K-School Institute of Politics officials felt equally strongly--they did not want to see their first-ever "honorary associate" swept away by a sea of anti-war students right in front of the television cameras...
...added that at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Moscow had some 20,000 troops in Cuba and remnants of that force have remained there ever since. According to one of the breakfast participants, the President speculated that the Soviet brigade could be "deeply embarrassing to Castro when he is trying to palm himself off as a neutral. The President felt that it was advantageous to us to expose [the brigade] at this time to embarrass Castro." This was a reference to the meeting of the nonaligned nations. Carter almost certainly was only trying to find a bright...
...forces are being harbored in the crowded refugee camps. Well aware that the Vietnamese have ten divisions arrayed along the Thailand-Cambodia frontier, China has made both public and private gestures of support for Bangkok, including the offer of troops in case of invasion. Such proposals only embarrass the Thais, who are determined to maintain their traditional independence...
...demanding. Begin has already told Vance that Israel remains adamant on three issues: 1) no solution if it compromised Israel's security; 2) no separate Palestinian state; 3) no return of East Jerusalem to Arab sovereignty. But Begin also said, "The last thing we want is to embarrass Sadat." On everything else that comes up in the negotiations, the Premier promised "we can and will help...
...apartment had been contaminated by plutonium from the plant, which has since been closed. The company contended that she had carried the metal out of the plant in small quantities and had, either intentionally or accidentally, poisoned herself. Why? "Maybe she was simply trying to create an incident to embarrass the company," suggested Kerr-McGee Attorney Bill Paul. Scoffing at that notion, Silkwood Attorney Gerald Spence hinted that the company had deliberately contaminated the lab worker because she was trying to reveal unsafe company practices. Asked Spence: "Did she know too much...