Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit the Bow: "So this is a Hahvahd bah. I thought there'd be equations and shit on the wall." There are no equations on the wall, of course (maybe if they'd gone to the Grille...), but there is the unpleasant encounter with the grad student eager to embarrass those he considers his intellectual inferiors...
...personal "extras" are a problem because they embarrass us. To themselves, they're just going about their daily routine, but to us they represent opportunities missed, projects abandoned and friendships unstruck. They are the could-have-beens of our college careers. Maybe someday one of them will discover a cure for some disease, and then people will say to us, "Laundry-Basket Boy just rid the world of multiple sclerosis. Weren't you in college together?" Or maybe Pre-Frosh could have been a great friend of ours. We'll never know. What's embarrassing is not that we aren...
...Supreme Court ruled unanimously last year that the Jones case could go forward while Clinton was in office, the Justices also indicated that the trial judge could make decisions that take into account the fact that the defendant is the President. For instance, questions that seem designed just to embarrass him politically could be ruled out of bounds...
Even if she loses, Madikizela-Mandela is still a Member of Parliament and continues to embarrass the A.N.C. with attacks on the government's integrity and its failure to deliver what the masses want. The Truth Commission hearing is not a trial, but it could find her responsible for what a leading witness, Methodist Bishop Peter Storey, called "a ruthless abuse of power." Her expulsion from the A.N.C. could follow. But even then, there will be many who believe that Madikizela-Mandela's transgressions were committed in the struggle against apartheid and that she should be praised, not pilloried...
...more silent about their preference, as they tend to internalize resentment of the boxers camp as opposed to publicly denouncing them. In private, they will share their anger at infantile quips used by the boxers fanatics, such as the phrase "tight whities." Surely those who prefer boxers embarrass themselves by resorting to such mudslinging tactics instead of engaging in responsible discourse. Men who prefer briefs argue that they prefer to let their body do the talking (please refer to Calvin Klein advertisements) as opposed to needing loud patterns on their undergarments...