Word: embarrassement
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...urine samples were proved to have been contaminated after they had been excreted; this showed that the samples had been doctored by someone. The evidence thus suggests that Silkwood had purposely contaminated herself and had probably smuggled a minute amount of plutonium home from the plant. Why? Perhaps to embarrass the company and thus strengthen the union's bargaining position at negotiations late last November. Or perhaps Silkwood was emotionally unbalanced...
...national chairman, he struggled to unify a shattered party and so became the prime Watergate target of Nixon's burglars and buggers, as well as a victim of the outrageous theory that he had known about the Watergate break-in in advance and permitted it in order to embarrass the Republican Party. Still, O'Brien confesses, "the three worst months of my life-a nightmare" were spent in George McGovern's dismal 1972 campaign...
...with Soviet leaders. The Palestinians also cracked down on dissidents responsible for the skyjacking of a British Airways VC-10 whose crew and passengers were released earlier in the week. The four Arabs who had seized the plane to obtain the release of Palestinian prisoners and also embarrass the more moderate P.L.O. were detained in a Tunisian jail. P.L.O. agents swooped down elsewhere to grab 26 other dissidents. They were accused of supporting a breakaway group called "the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine," which opposes any settlement short of destruction of Israel...
...newspaper account of racial violence in the Charlotte schools. "I wouldn't have approved this trip if I had known what was going on down there," he said. "I feel that Boston has been painted as being barbarian. The whole thing was a public relations effort to embarrass Boston...
...general's forced retirement in 1969 when Giscard urged a non vote against De Gaulle. Even Mitterrand's ally, Communist Boss Georges Marchais, could not resist getting in on the act, despite the generally low profile his party has been keeping in order not to embarrass Mitterrand. "Gaullists and Communists, even if they have been sometimes violently opposed, have always been united at different stages," said Marchais...