Word: embarrassement
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...angry did the Knowland-Knight vendetta become in the last days of campaigning that in some scattered areas Knight's campaign aides drummed up Republican votes for Democrat Brown to embarrass Knowland, and Knowland workers performed the same service for Knight Opponent George Christopher. In the first flush of primary humiliation California Republicans showed signs of falling farther apart. Knowland at week's end had still avoided a direct Knight endorsement; Knight similarly ignored Big Bill. Appalled at the feuding, other G.O.P. nominees pulled back...
...question of nuclear disarmament is essentially a strategic and technical issue. Those who consider it solely an ethical problem and agitate for it on moral grounds alone can only confuse or embarrass U.S. policy...
...baked potatoes and slugs of brandy. There is an alcoholic street singer, a kind of turn-of-the-century Bing Crosby ("Boo-boobooboo-boo"). And there is Grandma from Sweden who chews pipe dottle and comes to Denmark fully intending to die, but lives on to plague and embarrass the boy's mother with her unhousebroken back-country habits...
...Israel's tenth anniversary celebrations, the Israelis scheduled a Jerusalem military parade so big and bristling that some diplomats, notably Britain's Ambassador Sir Francis Rundall, declared that it would embarrass them to be invited: to bring large numbers of troops and heavy equipment so close to the border would be a violation of the Jordanian-Israeli armistice agreement. "If Jordan doesn't mind our bringing heavy stuff up here for one day," huffed an Israeli Foreign Office spokesman, "why should the diplomats worry...
...years, said Ike, Congress had sent him farm legislation "which I cannot in good conscience approve." Intended to freeze 1958 price supports at not less than 1957 levels, the vetoed bill, like the one in 1956. was an election-year stratagem by which 1) Democrats hoped to embarrass the Administration, and 2) farm-belt Republicans hoped to horsefeather their re-election chances...