Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irks the White House most is the fact that the dispute became public. Though HUD officials deny that they leaked the memo, Carter's aides were incensed. Said one: "The job of a Secretary is to defend positions taken by a President, rather than publish something that will embarrass the President...
ALTHOUGH the new Student Assembly has met only a few times, certain characteristics of the body are becoming readily apparent. Most noticeably, its caution. The reasons for this caution vary, but many representatives say it stems from a fear that the assembly will embarrass itself by trying to do too much, too soon. Representatives say they want to avoid the predicament President Carter found himself in after a year in office, having initiated a dozen reforms while having completed few; they want to learn their way around the University bureaucracy, carefully investigate what kind of substantive reforms the assembly...
...Bronx Bombers unleashed "the missiles of October" to embarrass the Los Angeles Dodgers, 12-2, and move to within one game of baseball's World Championship...
PLEASE SEE SPENCER LEE FROM ALBANY WHEN HE REQUESTS AN APPOINTMENT. This terse handwritten note from Jimmy Carter to Attorney General Griffin Bell lay forgotten for 19 months in a filing cabinet at the Justice Department. Last week it emerged at the center of a mystery that threatened to embarrass Carter and some of his closest associates...
...term is for extracurriculars? Good, you're way ahead of the dorks on your hall, even if they got higher SAT's than you did. Don't sweat it--after all, you were just put here because no one else admitted on their application to...well, I won't embarrass you, let's just chalk it up to diversity...