Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth Dean Thaddeus Seymour and the student newspaper, which had invited Wallace, sent formal apologies, and the general feeling around the campus next day was one of sheepish embarrassment. It is impossible to embarrass Wallace. He described the demonstrators as pacifists who "don't want to fight the Viet Cong but sure can fight the police" and, alluding to the car-rocking episode, said the students were "expressing academic freedom-and academic freedom can get you killed...
...opening of the Aspida trial, in which 28 officers were charged with high treason. The raucous proceedings, which began last November and lasted for four months in an Athens court room, finally resulted in March in conviction and prison sentences for 15 of the defendants. The royalists hoped to embarrass the Papandreous even further, but Son Andreas could not be brought to trial because he enjoyed immunity from prosecution as a member of Parliament...
...effect. Everybody plugged everybody's newest picture, recording or TV show. Bishop introduced his rabbi and a priest, and kept referring to his jitters, which needed no introduction. Dragging his microphone into the studio audience, he introduced "one of my idols. I promised him that I would not embarrass him by taking a microphone and talking to him, etc., but I know you would never forgive me if I did not acknowledge the presence of one of the great, great stars of all time, Mr. Edward G. Robinson, with his lovely wife...
...questions Reston neglects to deal with is the recent growth of radical publications, such as Ramparts, aimed explicitly at exposing issues which will embarrass the government. The reporters Reston constantly refers to are writers a la New York Times) who are basically in agreement with our government's aims and thus feel compelled not to print anything which might thwart our foreign policy. But what about the new writers who feel it is their duty to subvert a foreign policy they are fundamentally opposed to. How do they fit into Reston's patern of journalistic restraints on our government. Apparently...
...long, in color and with a theme song groaned by Bing Crosby, Yorty's show on its first two exposures proved at least that a quirkily provocative off-screen performer can upstage Donald Duck on the air. Sam bantered with Art Linkletter ("I don't want to embarrass you, Art, but what are you running for?" "I'm running for home in a few minutes"); consoled Neighbor Tippi Hedren on the horrendous reviews of her new movie, A Countess from Hong Kong; helped Pierre Salinger, a sometime political foe, plug both his employer (Continental Airlines...