Word: embroils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance of a potshot at De Gaulle was not the only worry of Greek leaders. The government was also uneasy that De Gaulle might try to embroil Greece in his quarrel with Britain over the Common Market, and with the U.S. over NATO defense. It was France, not Greece, which had pushed the trip. De Gaulle had picked up an invitation made seven years before to then President René Coty. Paris also suggested that the French fleet drop anchor in the Piraeus to coincide with De Gaulle's arrival, and discreetly broached the plan of having De Gaulle...
Misleading & Disrespectful. In the two years that the Earl of Arran has been writing for the tabloid News, his plebeian readers have discovered in him that favorite British combination-lordly eccentricity. Few subjects are too large, and none too small, to embroil the Earl. He cannot fathom the Common Market, but he can try: "The lady from Bexhill still bangs away at me about a mass importation of French courtesans. But I think there must be more to the Common Mar ket than that." "Electrified" by reading in a Sunday women's page that a daub of lipstick artfully...
...onetime proponent of the "two-China policy," Bowles complicated the trying problem of Red China's admission to the United Nations by insisting that the Administration embroil itself in full-scale debate on the issue. At Bowles's suggestion, Kennedy made the naive mistake of asking the Russians for a six-month diplomatic moratorium while the new Administration worked out its foreign policy. Bowles earned the enmity of the department's career men by recommending outsiders for important ambassadorships, irked Democratic politicians at the same time by not selecting big party contributors...
Mboya's activities embroil him with British colonial officers in Kenya, who say that Mboya, by the selection methods he uses, often sends "inferior" students to the U.S., where they often can get into only "inferior" colleges (e.g., small Southern Negro institutions). They are embittered after they get home, say the British, when they cannot meet the higher-education job specifications the British insist upon, based on British models. The British also argue that they themselves are training Africans to run new nations...