Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embassy closely guarded the secret, lest premature publicity embarrass the Chinese and cause them to change their minds. Coach reservations, later upgraded to first class, on the Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit were made in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Woo Chan...
...claims to have seen on the President's private zone that night in an Arkansas hotel room. "I can see why they waited so long in getting it to me," he said Tuesday, "because they know I can easily rebut it. This was just an effort to humiliate and embarrass the President...
...wouldn't want to embarrass ourselves, nor cause a tragedy like the one at MIT and other various colleges," he says...
...water polo initiation involved alcohol, but there was no pressure to drink and everybody was relaxed," Bennett says. "The intent was not to embarrass anyone but rather simply for the upperclassmen to get to know the first-years...
...former Times reporter, "is like getting into a Sherman tank. You can't go more than 10 m.p.h. You can't see anything. But you know you have this enormous power." Says another former Times reporter: "Everyone feels the burden to maintain the standards, to be serious, to not embarrass themselves. People feel overwhelmed by the institution...