Word: embarrassments
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Urgently he kept struggling to become a novelist, but the sketches he wrote about his flophouse experiences became his first book. He knew that the seamy life depicted in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) would unnerve and embarrass his parents, so he told his agent that he did not want the book published under his own name: "As a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc. is P.S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probable kind of name, what about Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, H. Lewis Allways. I rather favor...
...each of these has a strong individual effect, staging a rally inside a forum destroys the power of both. The forum could have provided a chance to challenge Weinberger's murderous policies by putting him center stage with the responsibility of answering our questions. This was an opportunity to embarrass the government by bringing to light the weaknesses in our foreign policy. One Harvard student asked Weinberger how he could justify our aggression toward Nicaragua and Grenada, countries which are trying to alleviate their poverty, while at the same time supporting the government in El Salvador. Unfortunately, Weinberger's justification...
...confident that there are no facts in his background that will emerge later that will embarrass him. He's a superb selection," added Assistant Dean of the College Marlyn M. Lewis, who was also a member of the search committee...
Crimson: Do you think that the State Department's assertions are attempts to embarrass the Soviet Union...
Among the tourists who browsed in the shop yesterday was Yale alumnus William Greenwood. Greenwood said he dropped into the store "to find something to embarrass my Harvard friends...