Word: embroilment
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...conflict that threatened to destroy Lebanon-and to embroil the U.S.-was not exactly total war. In Beirut harbor, water skiing, yachting and bikini bathing went on unabated last week. The curfew's chief effect on the diplomatic set was to move up cocktail parties from 7 to 5, and to make luncheons more popular than dinner parties. Diners stopped rushing out for a look when bombs went off, merely glanced at their watches so that they could see which bomb it was in the newspaper next morning. Daily papers printed want ads for apartments "in the calmest quarter...
...government and Marshall Tito have the complete confidence of the people that we will not embroil them in another war. We tried government by Western means in 1941, and were helpless when the Nazis marched into the country. This must not happen again...
...nation's highest court still had to review their case, said Justice Jackson. He agreed that the public statements issued periodically by one or the other of the convicted Reds are "crudely intemperate . . . plainly designed to embroil different elements of our society . . . But the very essence of constitutional freedom of press and speech is to allow more liberty than the good citizen will take...
...hugged & kissed Jimmy's two-year-old daughter, Anna Eleanor and told her son severely: "She has a chin like mine. You'll have to start her exercising her chin." Then she turned to the problem presented by a houseful of reporters, most of them thirsting to embroil her in argument about local politics. She solved it by discussing the United Nations-so firmly, so energetically and with so much of the air of a Hokinsonian clubwoman doing flower arrangements that the press fidgeted, breathed heavily and resigned itself to an austerity diet of Larger Issues...
Montana's Britain-baiting Burton K. Wheeler, used to declaiming that private U.S. investments in foreign powers would embroil the U.S. in war, now suggested that the British raise the money by selling securities to private investors. Few U.S. investment experts thought such an enormous loan could be privately floated...