Word: embarrassment
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Even if she loses, Madikizela-Mandela is still a Member of Parliament and continues to embarrass the A.N.C. with attacks on the government's integrity and its failure to deliver what the masses want. The Truth Commission hearing is not a trial, but it could find her responsible for what a leading witness, Methodist Bishop Peter Storey, called "a ruthless abuse of power." Her expulsion from the A.N.C. could follow. But even then, there will be many who believe that Madikizela-Mandela's transgressions were committed in the struggle against apartheid and that she should be praised, not pilloried...
...more silent about their preference, as they tend to internalize resentment of the boxers camp as opposed to publicly denouncing them. In private, they will share their anger at infantile quips used by the boxers fanatics, such as the phrase "tight whities." Surely those who prefer boxers embarrass themselves by resorting to such mudslinging tactics instead of engaging in responsible discourse. Men who prefer briefs argue that they prefer to let their body do the talking (please refer to Calvin Klein advertisements) as opposed to needing loud patterns on their undergarments...
...embassy closely guarded the secret, lest premature publicity embarrass the Chinese and cause them to change their minds. Coach reservations, later upgraded to first class, on the Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit were made in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Woo Chan...
...claims to have seen on the President's private zone that night in an Arkansas hotel room. "I can see why they waited so long in getting it to me," he said Tuesday, "because they know I can easily rebut it. This was just an effort to humiliate and embarrass the President...
...wouldn't want to embarrass ourselves, nor cause a tragedy like the one at MIT and other various colleges," he says...