Word: embarrassment
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...works, the ultimate goal is to force the Senate to vote on Douglas shortly before Election Day next fall. The purpose: to embarrass Senate liberals who are running for re-election and would presumably find it difficult to vote for the "immoral" Douglas no matter how they themselves regarded the charges against...
...persuade a majority of Senators of the qualifications of either Haynsworth or Carswell was the nub of the entire fight. Unquestionably, there was some truth to the argument that a number of current and past Justices were no jewels of judicial wisdom. Doubtless, some Democrats were glad to embarrass the Administration and would have behaved differently toward men of similar caliber who were nominated by a Democratic President. Certainly the fact that both judges are Southern conservatives evoked opposition from blacks, liberal intellectuals and trade unionists, inducing some Senators to be more skeptical than they otherwise would have been...
Councillor Barbara Ackermann questioned a section of the resolution which approved Pusey's calling for police aid to clear University Hall last April-an action which. the resolution said. "foreclosed the probability of a Cambridge Massacre and widespread destruction." She accused Crane of inserting the section in order to embarrass those councillors. including herself. who did not approve of the police action...
...privately hope, legislators are somewhat less prone to showboating and somewhat more tired of the Patriot's continual pleas for a stadium. This may not be enough to assure the bill's defeat: Senate President Maurice Donahue may well decide to push hard for its passage, in order to embarrass Gov. Sargent - no friend of Donahue's - by forcing him to veto it or back down from his previous opposition to using eminent domain on Harvard Stadium...
...workers, members of United Mine Workers of America local 12003, District 50, are on strike against the company, and were there, one picket said "to embarrass Mr. Goldston...