Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rise, sharpest for any month in two years. Retail price increases this year will run about 7%. Unemployment, at 2.5% as of last week, is the highest for any May since 1940. In addition, there was the prospect that renewed troubles this summer in Northern Ireland would embarrass Wilson. Until Wilson's Home Secretary, James Callaghan, last week pressured South Africa's all-white Sprinkbok cricket team into canceling its scheduled visit, there was also the likelihood of anti-apartheid protests from British liberals, which might have stirred up a pro-Tory "law-and-order" vote...
Says Brewer in his high-pitched voice: "I won't ever do anything to embarrass you and make you ashamed you voted for Albert Brewer." This is a pointed reference to Wallace's past antics, which. Brewer charges, have cost Alabama vital outside investment...
...works, the ultimate goal is to force the Senate to vote on Douglas shortly before Election Day next fall. The purpose: to embarrass Senate liberals who are running for re-election and would presumably find it difficult to vote for the "immoral" Douglas no matter how they themselves regarded the charges against...
...persuade a majority of Senators of the qualifications of either Haynsworth or Carswell was the nub of the entire fight. Unquestionably, there was some truth to the argument that a number of current and past Justices were no jewels of judicial wisdom. Doubtless, some Democrats were glad to embarrass the Administration and would have behaved differently toward men of similar caliber who were nominated by a Democratic President. Certainly the fact that both judges are Southern conservatives evoked opposition from blacks, liberal intellectuals and trade unionists, inducing some Senators to be more skeptical than they otherwise would have been...
Councillor Barbara Ackermann questioned a section of the resolution which approved Pusey's calling for police aid to clear University Hall last April-an action which. the resolution said. "foreclosed the probability of a Cambridge Massacre and widespread destruction." She accused Crane of inserting the section in order to embarrass those councillors. including herself. who did not approve of the police action...