Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearings at which Galbraith testified on March 8 concluded yesterday. In a final statement before adjournment, Capehart reiterated his belief that the hearing was designed "to embarrass the Eisenhower administration and to cause the people to lose confidence in the economy...
Senator Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind) yesterday continued his verbal attack upon John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, by accusing the professor of "coming down to Washington to sell a book and embarrass the Eisenhower administration...
...richest of them and moved to the bigger town of Bernay. There the local shooting club welcomed him with open arms and were only slightly put out when Roger missed the target completely at his first shoot. "I suppose," said one member, "that he didn't want to embarrass us." Soon afterward Roger resigned, to assume the presidency of what he called the International Federation of Professional Marksmen...
...Order approved. But the priest's diocesan superior, Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, vetoed it. Ottawa Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux and Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal agreed with Archbishop Roy's stand that the unprecedented * appointment of a priest to a political post might eventually embarrass the church...
Last week, winding up a three-month-long forum on what to do about the Appia, Rome's Giornale d'ltalia decided that public opinion is so diverse "as to embarrass anyone who wants to draw active and positive conclusions." Whizzing along the highroad of a new 20th century Renaissance in their motor scooters and Alfa Romeos, the great mass of Italians seemed quite content to let the old Via Appia find its own way into the future as it had out of the past. "We too are making history," said one Roman, "and who knows-maybe...