Word: embarrassingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON in triumph flashing humbled an eager but inept WHRB staff Thursday in a free-wheeling touch football game. Not wishing to embarrass the broadcasters, the CRIMSON judiciously kept the score down...
...homosexual clerk named John Vassall had managed to live in style and sell secrets to Russia for six years before he was caught (TIME. Nov. 2 ). Though he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Labor M.P.s in the House of Commons kept the case alive, not only to embarrass the government, but also with the reasonable aim of finding out how the British security system could have been so ineffectual. They had little help from Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft, who seemed to treat the case with man-of-the-worldly flippancy. Thorneycroft breezed: "It's been said this...
...disagreed with the President it would create "an embarrassment that no patriotic American would want the President to bear," Lodge said. He maintained that Massachusetts needs a Senator "who can embarrass the Administration into giving us our proper share" of space contracts...
Meany: You deliberately picked Helstein to embarrass me and put me on the spot...
...seriously embarrass the government...