Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star-Times triumphantly editorialized on Page One: "Strange and decadent journalism that, in order to embarrass or discredit a competitor, lines up on the side of suppression, censorship and whitewash." The Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch had nothing...
...Robe ($2.75) is a simple, 700-page novel laid in the time of Christ, by a prolific writer of moral tales whose messages are so direct and earnest that they embarrass most reviewers. The Apostle ($3) is a fictional reconstruction of the life & times of St. Paul...
Advice to Doctors. The book's advice to young doctors makes good sense: 1) take the time to get a good, complete history of the patient's illnesses; 2) do not write down anything likely to embarrass the patient; 3) unearth, if possible, the patient's real reason for seeing a doctor; 4) take a good look at each patient; size him up; 5) never get angry with a patient and never give him the lie direct-"the patient is always right"; 6) do not put too much faith in laboratory tests nor order unnecessary ones...
...Mobilizer James F. Byrnes called the two battlers to his White House office -not to fire them but to urge them to try to patch up their quarrel. Congressional committees carefully shied away from an investigation. No Congressman wanted to embarrass Jesse Jones further, and there seemed little honest chance on this occasion to take a whack at Henry Wallace...
Ever since hustling Ellis Arnall trounced him in the Democratic primaries last September, vindictive Gene Talmadge has tried to embarrass his successor. With the near-dictatorial powers he had wangled from a supine Legislature, he arbitrarily raised schoolteachers' salaries 25% (added cost: $3,500,000 annually). No one begrudged the teachers the raise; but most knew that Gene did not act out of altruistic motives. In a further attempt to gut the State Treasury he put 40,000 additional old-age pensioners on the rolls (cost: $1,600,000 annually); only a taxpayer's injunction suit stopped...