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...that the umps were permitting flagrant use of the illegal spitball, he deliberately ordered Braves pitchers to moisten the ball, kept careful count of how many times (75) they got by with it, and released the statistic to sportswriters after the game. Bobby's latest project is to embarrass the whole city of Milwaukee−by giving it a National League pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: BASEBALL The Team That Made Leaving Milwaukee Famous | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

Officially, I'Affaire Voodoo was over. Or was it? If De Gaulle's most skillful intelligence operatives had arranged the whole thing as an elaborate trap to embarrass an unsuspecting U.S. Air Force, his agents could not have given le grand Charles a better case to justify his long-felt need to get the Americans out of Europe-or at least out of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: L'Affaire Voodoo | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...seemed to embarrass Hamlin, too. She slowed her performance distrinctly the first ten minutes and the began to drag a bit and so more and more. Tim again, aided by Bruce bluth's exaggerated but Willie, she would strike a but time and again the play bog down and extinguish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repertory Season Opens at Loeb | 7/15/1965 | See Source »

...girl suggested to her swain that they spend the evening at a local amusement park. "Oh come off it." He replied. "You know that whenever you go on those wild rides you wet your pants and embarrass me." "Honestly," she pleaded. "I won't this time. I'll take care." At length the swain consented and the pair enjoyed a pleasant time on a number of the tamer riders. Then the girl urged that they try the terrifying loop-de-loop, the fastest swirling ride in the park. With some trepidation, her date agreed. After several breathtaking circular ascents their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pervert-a-Proverb | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...from owning or carrying firearms. Though arrested persons may be held for as long as 30 days without charges, no other country's police force is so eager to hand Americans over to the nearest U.S. consul. A robbed tourist is so rare that he is likely to embarrass the entire country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Law: A U.S. Tourist's Legal Sampler | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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