Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was nothing unbelievable about this story to the Japanese, who recognize facts as relative and variable shadows of certain innate truths incomprehensible to all Westerners. When an unpleasant fact does embarrass the Japanese, they either ignore it or else commit harakiri...
Governor Edison knew that President Roosevelt's appointment of Meaney was the routine sort of kick-in-the-face that practical politicians must learn to shrug off. He knew that, unless he held his peace, he would embarrass Friend Roosevelt. Yet last week, with the philosophic detachment of the deaf, and the practical detachment of a man to whom politics is more than a game, he sat down and wrote a statesman's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...make, or talk of making, a second front in the West in order to help the Russians, surely the Japanese can make a second front in the East in order to embarrass the Russians...
...Viscount's chic, young (26) wife had her troubles, too. When she appeared at Elizabeth Arden's Bond Street shop to get a shampoo and facial, the manager marched her into a private office and said: "I don't want to embarrass you, but after what happened in Hong Kong there is not a girl here who wants to give you a treatment. You ought to go away before you are insulted. . . ." Viscountess Kano left...
...making of peace between Farouk and Nahas was a sure sign that Egyptian nationalism was rising again-timed to embarrass Britain when her hands were busy holding off an Axis invasion. The British Middle East Command, never knowing when to expect an Axis drive through Turkey and down through Syria, was weakened by the withdrawal of Australian troops to Singapore. Reported movements of new Axis troops in the Balkans and German airmen in lower Italy hinted at a big offensive if & when Rommel plows through Cyrenaica...