Word: embarrassement
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...responsibility. A Southerner, utterly dependent upon Southern support in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, he painstakingly steered through the Senate this year a civil rights bill guaranteeing the voting rights of Southern Negroes. Instead of trying to use the U-2 imbroglio and the summit collapse to embarrass the Administration in an election year, he spoke out for national unity...
...wide range of manufactured goods ends next year. Raab would like to convert the agreement into a straight trade deal, so that the Russians would buy what the Austrians have heretofore been forced to give them free. He also wants to avoid any Khrushchev temper tantrums that would embarrass Austrian neutrality...
...Troquer denied everything except that he was acquainted with Pierre Sorlut. He insisted: "To all this I offer a categorical denial without reserve. Besides, I have no taste for minors." It was all a plot, he cried, to embarrass De Gaulle's Fifth Republic and the Socialist Party, in which Le Troquer has been prominent for 40 years. Abruptly the entire affair went off the record, and the hearings were closed to the press and public...
Little Mary Sunshine. Despite a title that would embarrass Oscar Hammerstein, the most phenomenal off-Broadway success since The Threepenny Opera is a reminiscent farce that parodies the sugar-glazed operettas of yesteryear's Kerns and Frimls...
...American Ambassador Lodge-in two weak statements defending free speech and free observation flights anywhere-tried to steer the Council toward the aggressive threats and actions of Russia. He did not make telling points. In sum, Soviet Russia appears to have found some legality, not only to embarrass the United States, but to stress to the United Nations that if international law is to be rewrit ten here, the U.N.. too, could fade out ingloriously...