Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murder .. . was a cold, deliberate political demonstration, planned to be spectacular, planned to intimidate. If the murderers are not discovered, an invisible but inevitable pressure of intimidation will rest on every American correspondent abroad." But the Greek police last week were pursuing another line of inquiry less likely to embarrass higher-ups. Their official theory: George Polk had been killed because of something in his "personal life...
...believe in love any more," said Dorothy. Her voice had the gently feminine tone of a bent gong. "I'm looking for just one thing-money, money, money." She hadn't expected to attract so much attention, and she hoped it wouldn't embarrass her parents (with whom her children live). She favored a "decent type" for a husband, someone "not too old." And in a hurry. She had enough money to last about a week...
...romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with my music; it would embarrass...
...week the President also: ¶ Directed all executive agencies to refuse both Congress and the courts access to confidential information gathered in loyalty investigations of Government employees. Republican Congressmen immediately attacked the order as a step toward "one-man government." The President's explanation: "Disclosure of sources would embarrass informants . . . disclosure of information might be the grossest kind of injustice...
...That MacArthur's headquarters had written to at least nine correspondents' employers, seeking to "embarrass" the newsmen or get them removed...