Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Circuit Court Judge Pasqual Sorrentino and Pat Marcy, a friend of the Chicago LCN family. What should he do, Sorrentino asked, if federal agents questioned him about his associations with gangsters? Marcy's answer: "Stand on your dignity. Don't answer those questions. Tell them they're trying to embarrass you. Stay on the offensive. Remember, you're a judge." The trouble is, of course, that Sorrentino and some of his colleagues, on federal as well as state benches, have forgotten just that fact...
...this related only peripherally to the prosecution, which actually seemed to be based on Gandar's past op position to racial policies and the fact that the prison stories had been picked up by the foreign press. Editors, argued the prosecutor, should refrain from publishing material that might embarrass the government abroad...
Retailers can continue to advertise credit in general wording ("Ask About Our E-Z Payments Plan"), but if an ad men tions even one specific term it must go on to list all others. That could embarrass ghetto storekeepers, many of whom lure the poor into expensive installment contracts by trumpeting "No Money Down - Years...
This maneuver may strengthen the N.L.F.'s bid for a role in a coalition government in South Viet Nam before elections are held?one of the ten N.L.F, points announced May 8. Creation of the provisional government may also embarrass Thieu. He has reluctantly offered to talk with the N L.F , but he might renege if it meant dealing with a self-proclaimed regime that purports to be more legitimate than his own. Thieu denounced the N.L.F, move as "a fabrication concocted by a group of people who take cover in jungles without daring to disclose their location...
...room. You know they're going to kill you. They say, 'Tony Boy wants to shoot you in the head and leave you in the street, or would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel, we don't have to embarrass your family.' That's what they should have done to Willie. Sure, that man never should have been disgraced like that." Added DeCavalcante: "It leaves a bad taste. We're out to protect people." At times, the mob seems to have a conscience...