Word: embarrassement
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...smoke of the charge was gone, Truman rose before a Jewish National Fund banquet and threw the switch on members of Congress who voted to cut military and foreign-aid expenditures. "There are some people who would rather play politics than have strong defenses," he said. "They would rather embarrass the White House than checkmate the Kremlin...
Santa Claus must never promise anything to anybody. That might embarrass the parents, Mr. Spang told me, and he stressed it again and again the day I reported for work. I was to be one of three Santas at R. H. White's, replacing a Mr. Boccuzzi who had just contracted some childhood disease and was away at the hospital. Spang himself works on the Number One shift and is an old hand at the job. He is a truck driver during the off season and, when you get down to it, not a very jolly fellow; but once...
...absurd to maintain that a copper bird could have arranged a series of audiences with notables, or eluded pursuers unaided, Ever since what now appears to have been a wilful theft, his captors have consistently made a spectacle of the revered mascot--to what purpose, save to embarrass and distress its owners, it is hard to imagine...
...people who have made Graham Greene the popular success he is today are, by & large, people who like the movies -people who go for a "good thriller," ordinary people, people who never embarrass themselves or one another by using the word "sin." Greene himself uses the word sometimes, and the fact continually, but he manages to make it as homely and credible-and as interesting-as the neighbors' behavior...
Spite & Suspicion. The Poage amendment was beaten. So was an amendment guaranteeing a four-month freeze as of July 7 on all wages and prices (except rents and farm prices), whipped up by James C. Davis of Stone Mountain, Ga. to embarrass the Administration and give the coalition the alibi that they had tried to get "real" controls. The amendment would enrage labor, which is still trying to get wage "readjustments," would freeze all present price inequities which Di Salle would like to correct...