Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bullheadedness began to embarrass his G.O.P. colleagues. At week's end the House leadership was ready to call a caucus to thrash out the tax question and avoid an open, intraparty fight...
...take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated to the $2 billion figure...
While the purpose of the stage is not solely to entertain, it is also not to depress, embarrass, or mystify, as so many of the extremely outre productions of local theater groups have done. The Veterans Theater Workshop last week went through the motions of a play that was not only nebulous and long, but literally a poor piece of writing. The Harvard Dramatic Club, running in a flying wedge behind a superbly ingenious press-agent, managed to fill the house for a production whose only scintillating features were its novelty and its fig-leaf...
...local freethinker and scoffer at the Gospel, Fred Ammermeyer. decided he would beat the missions at their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...
...from strengthening U.S. diplomacy, the Air Forces' trigger-happiness was likely to embarrass it. State would have to be doubly careful now in approving the flight. What the U.S. clearly needed was a machinery for deciding upon a foreign policy and executing it-a well-oiled, smooth-running machine in which no foreign ear could hear the gears clashing...