Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-American manifestations seemed designed mainly to embarrass President Ngo Dinh Diem's anti-Communist Viet Nam government, one source said...
Soldier Eisenhower's studious bent recently led him to consider, then turn down, an offer from a big Eastern school to become a teacher-on the offer's own merits, not because the alternative would embarrass his father or the Army. He is determined to make the Army his career. Says he: "I'm an infantry officer one thousand percent...
...director mustn't show off, and embarrass his actors by getting laughs at their expense. Nothing reveals people so much as when they are trying to be something they are not. Actors have to perform a spiritual strip-tease in rehearsals, and the director should handle them on a clinical basis and with antiseptic sympathy--like a doctor with neurotic patients...
...Ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to fly to the London disarmament talks. White House officials explained that Dulles' sudden trip was neither routine nor intended to embarrass U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Harold Stassen; instead, Dulles wants another face-to-face huddle with Western diplomats on key issues (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing his old party rivals as associates of the hated Stalin. The fact that he himself had been a Stalin crony apparently did not embarrass Khrushchev. Who in Russia dared point this...