Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered them right out, but avoided the possible delay of charging them with contempt. Why had he banned the press? Because, said Judge Geary, Mrs. Black was preparing to describe how her husband had forced her to commit perverse acts, and public knowledge of the case would "embarrass not only the defendant but the four women on the jury." Added the judge: "As far as I'm concerned, the failure of the district attorney to object waived any objection on the part of the People...
...luncheon, over vodka and caviar, Khrushchev made an appeal to British reasonableness: "Both in the Conservative Party and in the ranks of the Opposition there are those who are in favor and those who are against our visit. We regard such a situation as natural, and it does not embarrass us." Khrushchev softly pleaded for peaceful coexistence: "As people say, you have to live with the neighbor that God has sent you and not the neighbors you would like to have...
...smell of so much corruption only encouraged the zealous investigators to go on. But already there were hints of favoritism, and signs that continued prying might embarrass the new government. The decree ending investigations seemed to be a prudent recognition that bullying Peronista bullies could eventually get to be too much of a good thing...
...editors of Christianity and Crisis fear that Billy Graham's scheduled crusade in Manhattan [TIME, March 12] will embarrass or further prejudice against religion "the modern 'enlightened' but morally sensitive man," let them conduct their own crusade. If they feel that their message is more relevant to the broader social issues of the day, and they are better able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon as Manhattan, let them come out of the editorial sanctuary and tell what they know...
Behind the Minnesota results lay a combination of factors. The bigger Democratic vote was largely due to the fact that there was a hot contest in the Democratic primary, and no contest on the Republican side. Some Republicans crossed over to embarrass the Democratic leadership, an old trick introduced in Minnesota years ago by Harold Stassen. Others voted on the Democratic side because they are angry about the farm situation. No doubt hundreds of Democrats voted for Kefauver because they resented what he so expertly exploited as an attempt by the party "bosses" to shove Stevenson down their throats...