Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...bear the red and olive-green emblems of the P.L.A. Actually, the emblems had been hastily painted, and most of the equipment and troops belonged to the Syrian army's reserve in Damascus. They were rolling into Jordan not only to help the fedayeen but also to embarrass the rival Iraqi Baathist government. Baghdad, which keeps a 12,000-man division in Jordan for the war with Israel, refused to order its troops to move against Hussein...
...early days, Fitzgerald drank out of disappointment and poverty. Later, "success was the occasion for drinking." Whatever its origins, Fitzgerald's alcoholism rarely seemed to embarrass him, though he often felt guilty over the suffering it caused his wife Zelda. Drinking, in fact, had always attracted him: as a boy, he pretended drunkenness; as an adult, he introduced himself as "F. Scott Fitzgerald, the well-known alcoholic." He claimed that liquor "heightened feelings," and he declined psychiatric treatment because he thought he would not write as well if he stopped drinking...
Anyone with technically feasible ideas on how best to "embarrass, harass, or 'sabotage' a large computer system which has done you wrong" could win cash prizes in a contest now being organized by two third-year GSAS students...
Falling Dominoes. Lobbyists for the influential American Trial Lawyers Association pushed the amendments that make no-fault insurance unworkable. If the plan fails, the lawyers will keep collecting the fees they now get for representing accident victims, who must prove fault. Some legislators probably also hoped to embarrass Sargent in his re-election campaign. Sargent signed the bill to avoid handing the Democrats an issue...
...heavens broke open again as the roll call began. A window shattered almost directly over the pontifical throne. As the votes came in-an unbroken succession of placets (it pleases)-it became clear that the opposition, once strong, had melted before the papal presence. Rather than embarrass the Pope, many of the American bishops, who principally feared Protestant reaction in the U.S. to the doctrine of papal infallibility, had gone quietly home. But the Most Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, 36, episcopus petriculanus, bishop of Little Rock, Ark., had changed his mind and decided to stay. When his name was called...