Word: embarrassement
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...Perhaps Madame Nhu, the "Dragon Lady," was right after all. She said the Buddhists in South Viet Nam were trying to embarrass the government and cause dissension with their continual harangues and displays of public immolation by fire. Their actions have only served to point up some of the reasons Christian missionaries have tried for years to truly enlighten these unfortunate people. Unlike Madame Nhu, I do not propose fighting fire with fire, but I have to agree with her that as a group they are certainly exasperating...
...unexamined Nazi documents. Lawyer Robert Kempner, who was a U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg trials points out that the Nazi killers of 4,000 Roman Catholic priests have not yet been brought to trial. The Communists may well be withholding evidence about Nazi criminals in order to embarrass West Germany, once the statute of limitations expires...
...ground of their lives and in it plants the seed of love. The final scenes are subtly realized and beautifully touching, but in one of them Director Donner, a 31-year-old protege of Ingmar Bergman, unfortunately promulgates one of those long long thoughts of youth that may mildly embarrass him when he gets older. Marriage, his heroine announces earnestly, is merely a "lesson in resignation"; the only true love is free love. Oh, well. In a movie like this, what's one anticlimax...
...original resolution, initiated by Jerry Umanski '67, recognized the MFDP as "Mississippi's legal party organization." It was attacked on the grounds that participation in an intraparty feud would only "embarrass the state and national parties...
...because of his penchant for flashy clothes. Running for the nomination last spring, he found himself confronted by bloody race riots in Jacksonville. He overcame the potential political damage by appearing on statewide television to charge that the violence had been inspired by some of his Democratic opponents to embarrass him politically...