Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MACARTHUR: "The statement I put out . . . was a military appraisal . . . largely prepared as a part of psychological warfare ... It was the last thing in the world that I would have wished to have done, to embarrass the President or anyone else who is working to bring about peace...
Such frantic attempts to make political capital out of serious problems of foreign policy only indicate the extent of the bankruptcy in Republican leadership. In seeking to embarrass the Administration, the G.O.P. points up its own inadequacy...
Meanwhile, the Peking Reds continue to snub His Majesty's Government, refuse to exchange ambassadors. Peking uses British recognition to embarrass London's Foreign Office, and Britain gets no compensating advantage...
...when it is" his own. Giorgio de Chirico, 63, would like to be known for the neoclassical nudes and warriors, done in lush, candy-box style, which he paints today. Instead, he is famed for the works of his youth: surrealistic cityscapes laced with long shadows. Such pictures simply embarrass De Chirico nowadays. Last week his embarrassment was acute...
...unit or location, or even to mention the presence of U.S. troops in any sector until the enemy knew it. Dispatches not only had to be "accurate in statement and in implication" but so written as not to "injure the morale of our forces or our allies and . . . not embarrass the U.S., its allies or neutral countries." Furthermore, warned Colonel Thompson, any violation of these rules might bring "disciplinary action" and in "extreme cases . . . arrest [for] deportation or court-martial...