Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to embarrass the Republicans further, O'Brien charged Attorney General Richard Kleindienst with "the most appalling foot dragging," and added that Kleindienst seemed to treat the case "as some kind of joke." Nevertheless, sources inside the Justice Department expect indictments to be handed down within the week. The seven to receive them will reportedly be the five arrested in the Watergate office building-James McCord, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenic Martinez and Virgilio Gonzales-plus former White House Aide G. Gordon Liddy and former White House Consultant E. Howard Hunt. Evidence reportedly linked Liddy to the monitoring...
...docks of Palma harbor. I needed coffee." Like so many would-be Hemingway heroes, though, he sees the role largely in terms of self-indulgence. He has a finca and a Mercedes and a pet monkey, and he boasts of his romantic adventures in a prose style that would embarrass even the creator of Across the River and into the Trees. Of Nina, he writes: "Call it love, call it madness -it may have been both...
That awkward situation provided an opportunity for the Soviet Union to embarrass Peking. Moscow hoped to demonstrate that China, contrary to disclaimers, is a superpower, and that in no sense does she champion the impoverished, backward Third World. In the crucial Security Council vote on admission, eleven of the 15 members of the Security Council, including the U.S., Russia and India, voted to recommend membership, three abstained, and only China voted to oppose the entry of Bangladesh. Now, unless the Pakistanis themselves recognize Bangladesh soon, the Chinese may find themselves further embarrassed by the reintroduction of the issue...
...most people, those credentials and invitations were well out of reach. In Flamingo Park, 4500 uninvited and unaccredited non-delegates--mostly young--plotted to disrupt and embarrass the Republicans. They sought to confront President Nixon once more over his policies of Vietnamization negotiated settlement and bombing in Vietnam...
...every morning and plot the day's strategy. White House watchers are intrigued by the prominence of Colson, 40, once the lightly regarded head of the "department of dirty tricks." While remaining the hatchet man who keeps errant staffers in line and dreams up projects to embarrass the opposition, Colson also now mixes in such delicate matters as the grain sale to the Soviet Union. He has a sign on his wall that reads: " 'I hope the Nixon people do to George McGovern what the Democrats did-underestimate him. If they do that, we'll kill them...