Word: embarrassments
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DIED. JESSICA MITFORD, 78, muckraking journalist and best-selling author; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif. In her quest to "embarrass the guilty," Mitford wrote books on the funeral business (The American Way of Death, 1969), the U.S. prison system (Kind and Unusual Punishment, 1973) and obstetrics (The American Way of Birth, 1992). She also wrote about her aristocratic and eccentric British family, from which she was disinherited after eloping with a second cousin in 1936. Her eldest sister was the novelist Nancy Mitford...
...said the government had been split for months between a group that believed Yeltsin could win re-election and a faction led by Korzhakov that wanted to cancel the vote. Planting currency is an old KGB trick, and the hard-liners might have set up the campaign workers to embarrass the reformers; or the two men might really have been carrying foreign notes without proper documents, and the hard-liners simply seized on this infraction. In either case, they overplayed their hand and gave the reformers an excuse to go after them...
...Swim Club. "When Helen Wainwright, who was also 14, and I made the Olympic team that summer, U.S. officials tried to have us disqualified for being too young. But the manager of our club convinced them that we deserved to go to Antwerp and promised that we would not embarrass the U.S. So off we went on a troopship called the Princess Matoika: 400 men, 15 girls and five chaperones thrown together for 13 days. And every day our manager reminded us of her promise...
...also wanted to avoid overinterpreting the decision of the Washington Post and ABC to dissect the political preference of UFO spotters in the first place. I assume that Perot has claimed that it was simply to embarrass him, a subtler version of polling people on the question "Which candidate can you most easily imagine rolling little steel balls around in his hand...
...guess is that the motivation here was to use it as a tool to embarrass the dean," said Jeremy R. Jenkins '97-'98, who resigned from the council after it passed the Nelson-Grimmelmann bill. "But that seems a rather poor premise, considering that Dean Lewis has already shown that he is quite willing to go against student opinion to support his principles...