Word: embarrassments
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...argument that to give SHAPE as well as SAC the power to push buttons would be absurdly dangerous is singularly persuasive, however sure the U.S. is that the Supreme Commander will always be an American. Another point that Kennedy might well consider is that disarmament negotiation will embarrass the West significantly more if it alters Europe's status as a limited military arena...
...sometimes set her tales. In Shadows, she reminisces about the decade (1921-31) when she ran a coffee plantation in the Ngong hill country of Kenya, an Africa now dead beyond recall and yet startlingly alive in these recollections. Characteristically, her theme -the relation of master and servant-would embarrass many contemporary writers to the roots of their social consciousness, but from her it evokes feudal harmonies rooted in a blood consciousness as profound as the roles of father and son, husband and wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author...
...near Amman after reconnoitering along Jordan's frontier. But the Syrian lad who climbed out of the cockpit seemed too young to be shot, too honest and helpful even to punish severely. Instead, the Jordanians decided that Lieut. Adnan Madani, 24, would make a useful propaganda weapon to embarrass Gamal Abdel Nasser. By trotting Madani out as a "defector," Jordan could "prove" that Syrians were unhappy in Nasser's U.A.R...
...witnesses, urged a U.A.R. diplomat to come and see for himself the genuineness of the suicide. But Cairo now had another tune to play. Nasser's radio hurled charges of murder, suggesting that King Hussein's brother and uncle personally ordered the shooting. When Jordan's embarrassed funeral cortege reached the Syrian frontier to turn the body back, U.A.R. guards swept the Jordanian wreaths into the roadside dust. In Damascus and Cairo the U.A.R.'s propagandists and patriots staged a triumphant demonstration for the boy who, rather than embarrass his country, had chosen death...
ALONG with all of its politicking, is Congress going to do any real lawmaking? Nowhere near as much as the partisan demands might indicate. The Republicans are trying to embarrass the Democrats on civil rights, but expect no new legislation to be passed. The Democrats accuse the Administration of neglecting national defense, but are not planning any major increases in defense appropriations. The Democrats are set to ignore several of the measures that the President called for in his message to Congress, including a new farm bill, increases in postal rates, authorization of 40 new federal judgeships, liberalization of immigration...