Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...diplomatic wing, last week's moves were also conservative. Following the appointment of one-eyed, genial Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura as Ambassador to the U. S.. the Government elicited from the Army and Navy promises that their extremists would do nothing to embarrass the Admiral in his efforts to win the U. S. back to friendship...
...Government no good in a lame reply that was more a confession than a defense. "It is folly to deny that damage has been done to production," said he, "but I say unhesitatingly that it hasn't eaten to any extent into our productive capacity. It has embarrassed us and will continue to embarrass us." As to shipping losses: "It is true that this is a position much like that of April 1917." April 1917 was the month the U. S. entered World War I and saved Britain from going down...
...week's end the hierarchy readied a resolution to keep Dubinsky quiet, not to embarrass some members too much, and the convention settled back relieved...
There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped...
...almost in the category with some of the stuff that is being published by Saturday Evening Post. If I wanted to go after this Government and embarrass it, I could do nothing better than to read this article, but I am not going to read it. . . ." prodigious. Canada is doing her bit in a most efficient and effective manner both at home and abroad. There'll always be an England, the champion of the liberty of subjected peoples...