Word: embarrassement
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...hasty departure from his basement apartment in Bogota last month. Fearing a secret warrant for his arrest, the novelist and journalist fled to Mexico after Colombia had broken relations with Cuba and his personal friend Fidel Castro. The regime claims that the leading surrealist was merely trying to embarrass them by seeking refuge in the Mexican embassy in Colombia. But Garcia Marquez says, "I am shy and I look aggressive." Some countrymen offer a more illuminating possibility: He's got an electric typewriter, and in his Bogota apartment they turn off the power at 7:30 every night. Next...
...Department's Central American bureau, voiced skepticism about the report yesterday. "We won't say it didn't happen, but we need more information. In the past, there's been a lot of misinformation and disinformation and it sounds like the report is coming from people who want to embarrass the regime...
...tried as hard as we could not to embarrass them." Morris said, after admitting that he deliberately curtailed his squad's offensive production by holding up baserunners and refusing to allow them to advance even on passed balls...
Vellucci said the liquor license attack was part of an overall effort embarrass the University in hopes of winning increases in voluntary in-lieu-of-tax payments. If we continue the bombardment, the attack, the pressure, pretty soon they'll give in," he said...
...point of the propaganda is plainly to extract advantage for the Soviet Union and embarrass the U.S. as much as possible. From the beginning, U.S. protests were to no avail, as Soviet broadcasts into Iran encouraged the captors to keep the Americans prisoner. Pravda said that the U.S. had invited retaliation by restoring the Shah to the throne in 1953 and then, when he was overthrown, refusing to return him to Iran. When the U.S. rescue raid failed last April, the Soviet press burst out in triumphant indignation: "An abortive provocation," "a violation of international...