Word: embarrassingly
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Suddenly one of the Westerners mastered his fright and whispered, "Stop, let him pass." The four came to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk. The KGB man, clearly unprepared for the maneuver, walked past them. The hound had become the hare. "Now let's catch up and embarrass him," said the correspondent. The reporters began jogging toward the KGB agent, who looked around, startled, and set off at a dead run. Pedestrians turned to stare at the sight: middle-aged men dressed in suits and overcoats pounding down a snowy sidewalk like bankers after...
Prosperous neighbors feel guilty. Bankrupt neighbors feel ashamed. Farmers who can afford new machines won't buy them, lest they embarrass friends. Machinery dealers go broke. Bankers anguish and hesitate -- and fail...
Later on the same day that Espinoza slipped into the embassy, the Nicaraguan Assembly stripped him of his legislative immunity so that he could be tried for arranging the burning of his own ranch house in order to blame and embarrass the government. Espinoza denied the charge...
Gonzalez will get little help from his pro-NATO parliamentary opponents, led by Manuel Fraga Iribarne of the Popular Alliance Party. Fraga has seized on the issue as a way to embarrass the Socialists and has urged his followers to abstain. But last week a prominent member of the Popular Alliance, Maria Fernandez Espana, resigned, saying that the party's policy was "dangerous...
...embarrass me," he replied. "I didn't fire a shot...