Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That hurt, But, then, climbing the Fogg steps out of class, I bumped into an old Cliffie friend. "I read your column every Saturday," she gushed--quietly so as not to embarrass herself--"and I really like...
...sitting in English 164 not too long ago when a tennis player leaned over and said--quietly so as not to embarrass me--"Do you know anything about football...
...Geneva office of Mark-press, a public relations firm owned by American Adman H. William Bernhardt. Since January, Mark-press has literally waged Biafra's war in press releases ?more than 250 of them. They are crammed with news of impending arms deliveries that is designed to embarrass European governments and with stark warnings about starvation. The firm has arranged air passage into Biafra for more than 70 newsmen from every West European nation and transmitted eyewitness reports to their publications...
Balancing Dissonance. The reason, perhaps, was that Vuillard never probed his sitter's secrets. As if telling too much about his subjects might embarrass them, he set them in surroundings they loved and gave both equal weight in the painting. Harmony was his aim. His success in balancing dissonant colors is demonstrated in the blending of 20 or more patterns in The Music Recital...
Harold McDougall, assistant head of ISSP, said, "The whole black communty (on a national scale) has been catalyzed in the last year. Last year, if one black saw another, he might wonder, "Should I say hello to this guy? Maybe he wants to blend in and I shouldn't embarrass him by having a Negro say hello...