Word: embarrassingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's foreign policy, "especially when our Communist adversary is strong, united, disciplined and on the march." For the sake of world opinion, the Republicans joined in a unanimous vote of support for the President's Berlin policy. In the same spirit, they dropped their plan to embarrass Democrats further over civil rights. "We had a choice," explained one, "between voting for our resolution and bleeding before the world all over again on this question by giving international headlines to Barnett and Patterson." The G.O.P. went along with a mushy compromise calling vaguely for leadership in "protecting American...
...question that has begun to puzzle and even embarrass proud young Israelis. "We licked 40 million Arabs," said one, "and we were a little more than half a million. We had few arms. But I suppose Germans are not Arabs: and we were fighting on our own soil. Still, I am not convinced...
There are, of course, a few anachronisms. The Jim Crow humor, acceptable to most audiences in 1939, will embarrass the average moviegoer today. And there are flaws of style and structure. The second half of the picture tends to maunder a little, and the whole film is afflicted by Producer David Selznick's rather tacky preference for gnarled trees silhouetted against flaming sunsets. The spectator sometimes gets a peculiar sensation that the picture has not really begun-he's still watching the travelogue...
...integrated into national planning and development programs. It would be wise to accompany this authority with a certain amount of financial responsibility, since authority without investment is the surest way to ineffectiveness and irresponsible behavior. An incompetent local administrator, or one who wishes for his own purposes to embarrass the United States overseas program (and there are plenty of these, in some areas) is far less likely to be overruled or replaced if his incompetence or malevolence does not cost his own government any money. system of United States payment and foreign control may possibly create a situation in which...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn won the battle (217-212) for control of the powerful House Rules Committee, but his war with Chairman Howard Smith has just begun. Vengeful Judge Smith has been trying to get back at Speaker Rayburn by calling up for a floor vote bills that would embarrass the Democratic leadership, particularly those that are anathema to Mister Sam (such as a bill to televise any House committee session). Thus far, the committee majority of eight pro-Rayburn Democrats has closed ranks, refused to let the bills reach the floor. But this puts the Rayburnites in the awkward...