Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deal. In Seattle, Mrs. Dorothy C. Horowitz used for evidence in her divorce suit a written pledge her husband had asked her to sign: "I promise never to embarrass you; to pay attention to you when you speak to me; never to smoke; to refrain from playing the radio too loudly; to keep my telephone conversations under five minutes; ... to cook three meals a day when requested and at the hours specified; . . . never to keep you waiting...
...Hanley's famed, indiscreet letter came home to roost last week. Republican Congressman W. Kingsland ("Dear King") Macy, to whom it was written, had spread copies of it around, in hopes that it would embarrass Tom Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed...
...Wagons. All this gallimaufry seemed to embarrass Senator Brien McMahon, a traditional-type politician. As chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, McMahon had taken on the mantle of an atomic statesman, and he kept it wrapped determinedly about him. He paid no attention to his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats...
...move on Van de Velde's house itself, crying "Down with Van de Velde. We want Flemish professors. Resign! Resign!" At first they found themselves screaming at the wrong Dr. Van de Velde, a Ghent medical faculty man with the first name of Jean. But that did not embarrass them. Cried one striker: "What's the difference? This one can't talk Flemish properly either." Nothing, they decided, would stop them: the strike would go on and on, even to June if necessary, when everyone would cut the final examinations...
...cold-shouldered when he thought it up last year. Fogarty wanted the U.S. to withhold Britain's $687,100,000 share of ECA dollars until the Redcoats got out of Northern Ireland. Last week Congressmen with Irish names, and others who were only looking for a chance to embarrass the Administration, suddenly and whimsically leaped aboard Fogarty's dream boat. After being assured that they could duck out again whenever they wanted, they voted...