Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass not only local but state and national Republican administrations as well), they had, at week's end, dismally failed...
...Fast, regretting "that after all the trouble we have put you to, we are compelled to tell you that we cannot present the original forum program as we had planned. As you doubtless understand from the newspapers, putting on such a program at this time would not only embarrass, but hurt, several people connected with the University...
...Fast, regretting "that after all the trouble we have put you to, we are compelled to tell you that we cannot present the original forum program as we had planned. As you doubtless understand from the newspapers, putting on such a program at this time would not only embarrass, but hurt, several people connected with the University...
Elocution & Roses. At the time of the wedding, Ike Culp told his prospective son-in-law: "Will, she's going to embarrass you. She doesn't give a hang about clothes and doesn't dress up the way she should...
...this day his white-collar origins embarrass Molotov. Once, when he was fulminating about the rights of the toiling masses, Britain's Bevin. a dockhand turned diplomat, rocked him with the question: "What do you know about workers?" Bevin waved his big, work-callused hands in Molotov's reddening face, and demanded: "Show me yours!" The Communist Foreign Minister, whose hands are soft as a banker's, kept them out of sight...