Word: embarrassments
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Pent-Up Odor. Obviously fearful that to call Jenkins before the Rules Committee might be to embarrass seriously the Democratic Administration, the Democrats voted down the Republican effort. In so doing, they chose to clamp down a lid on the official investigation of Bobby Baker rather than let it run its full course. Conceivably, there could be nothing more to it than was already known. But in putting on a lid, the Democrats were running a risk; if that lid ever blew off, the pent-up odor could be overpowering...
...speech, blandly assured Floridians that what was happening in Jacksonville "wasn't a riot" and "looked like a group of students after a football game." Incredibly, Burns charged that what violence there was had been inspired by some of his Democratic opponents for Governor in an attempt to embarrass him politically...
...Commons last week, the rebels forced a division on one clause of the bill. In the vote, more than 100 Tories abstained, and 31 voted against the government, gleefully joined by 171 Laborites, who are actually opposed to retail price fixing but could not pass up the chance to embarrass the government...
What was he doing there? Frankly, he was out to harass the Johnson Administration by posing as a serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. By moving into Wisconsin's presidential primary fight, he also figured that he might even pick up enough segregationist votes to embarrass Governor (and Democratic favorite son) John Reynolds...
...smooth over the conflicts between Indonesia, the Philippines and the new nation of Malaysia. While he was away, the Democratic city chairman of Manchester, N.H., Joseph R. Myers, conceived the idea of sponsoring a vice-presidential write-in campaign for him. "We didn't do this to embarrass Johnson," Myers said last week. "The Kennedy name is just magic up here...