Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cleaning up, Captain Jeff Weigand played Amherst student George McGovern. It wasn't enough that Amherst provided the South Dakotan Senator with Tom Eagleton the only vice-presidential candidate forced off a ticket in history, now they torture him by giving his namesake a squash racket and watching him embarrass himself in public...
RESTIC: Carried away, now that's putting it mildly. Not only did you thoroughly embarrass your host, me, but you ruined the party for all of the other guests, and they paid a good deal more than you for the privilege of attending...
...Kissinger's congressional critics and outside experts like former Under Secretary of State George Ball, who argued that Kissinger's step-by-step approach hindered an overall peace settlement more than it helped. Nonetheless, Ball urged Congress to approve the accord, since to vote it down would embarrass...
...indeterminate present, The Final Fire posits a New York City that is almost as crisis-ridden as the real one. Hoping to embarrass the mayor, his opponent in an upcoming election, the Governor dangles a sinecure before the city fire fighters' union president. The asking price: a smoke eaters' strike. Although his men vote to stay on the job without a contract, their leader calls a work stoppage anyway. A holocaust follows...
...political gathering held on the home turf of Uganda's dictatorial President Idi Amin Dada was bound to be a bit bizarre. The twelfth annual summit of the Organization of African Unity in Kampala last week easily lived up-or down-to expectations. "I will not embarrass you because of the confidence you have shown in me," "Big Daddy" promised as he became OAU chairman for the coming year. Nonetheless President Amin-who had generously promoted himself to the rank of field marshal for the occasion-proceeded to put on a divertissement that could not fail to embarrass delegates...