Word: embarrassments
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...manager from the Cardinals' Rochester farm who, Busch hoped, would give the team-and Budweiser sales-a lift. As for rumors that Busch is about to sell out, he purples at the mere suggestion, denies the rumors as "dirty, mean stories," hints that his competitors planted them to embarrass...
Last week the Communists proclaimed a "general strike." Nominally, the strike was a protest against the arrest of six of their leaders, but its real aim was to embarrass the new leftist government of David Marshall. Chief Minister Marshall, a fast-talking criminal lawyer who greatly admires Nye Bevan, horrified Singapore's starchy Britishers by winning the colony's first election two months ago. His election also aroused the Communists, who resented his stealing their campaign for self-government away from them. Moving into action, the Communist strike organizers halted bus lines, picketed pineapple canneries, granite quarries, rubber...
...question both in literature and in ethics. Authors must take their characters from the people about them combining traits and features into composites. But when he borrows from life--unless revenge was his motive--a writer takes care to change the locale, the time, any detail which might embarrass the subject he has chosen for his literary portrait. In Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event she describes, all the impact and all the pain of a newspaper account or a contemporary history. But Miss Sarton does...
...basement contains some of the WGBH studios along with surplus art objects. Among these latter, a number of nationalistic statue replicas given by Wilhelm II will share the fate of their donor's portrait and never see the light of the first floor. The presence of such exhibits would embarrass the museum staff, but only through an act of the Harvard Corporation could they be disposed of legally...
...settlement of the Polish question must be found-not because the principles on which the Western powers entered the war would be violated by a Communist slave state in Poland, but because the question embarrassed Roosevelt in domestic politics. He did not make the case for justice to Poland. He never used in the Polish bargaining the enormous leverage given him by Russia's economic need or by prospective U.S.-British control of West Germany. He simply begged Stalin, as one politician to another, not to embarrass him with the Polish voters...