Word: embarrassement
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...usually a betting man, largely because I seem to have an innate ability to pick a team to win and have them finish fourth, or predict another to lose and watch them embarrass me by winning easily. When the swimming team faced Dartmouth earlier this winter I put my money (actually it was a six-pack of Tuborg) on the Big Green, figuring that the Indians (oops, can't call them that anymore) were too strong for Don Gambril's team. Harvard, however, won decisively and I lost the brew...
With very little hesitation the presidential Inaugural Committee removed it from the program, feeling that the text, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, might embarrass President Nixon by its references to war. Soon three other orchestras offered to perform the work, a record company put out feelers about recording it, and inquiries began arriving in the mail at Persichetti's publishers-in all, it aroused more interest than almost any contemporary composer can hope for with a new piece...
...power cliques that virtually run the bureau; the perpetuation of Hoover's notorious "blacklist" of people to be shunned, socially and otherwise, by FBI agents; the maintenance of so-called penal colonies, field offices to which agents in disfavor are banished; and leaking FBI in formation to embarrass officials Gray considers to be his enemies...
...President of the U.S. ordered your son to attend your inauguration,' Dad said. 'If you think somebody was trying to embarrass you, then the President assumes full responsibility...
...reached the Capitol, they went to the sergeant-at-arms' office to wait for the summons to the platform. Ike suddenly turned to Dad and said: 'I wonder who is responsible for my son John being ordered to Washington from Korea? I wonder who is trying to embarrass...