Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claim, it is unenforceable. "You may know a pitch was a spitter-but how do you prove it?" shrugs Cal Hubbard, the American League's supervisor of umpires, and one of his subordinates says: "We don't bother the pitchers as long as they don't embarrass...
...hard-boiled; they can be made to understand that their graduate students cannot make ends meet on the present shoe-string salary they receive. In fact, they must be made to understand before the situation gets out of hand: before it blows up into an issue that could well embarrass Harvard University, administration and Teaching Fellows alike. G.S. Rousseau Instructor of English
...current pop scene includes deafening electronic barrages, puerile love ditties and screaming imitations of oldtime rhythm and blues so explicitly sexual that they embarrass and worry many adult listeners. But the kids seem to be getting kicks out of such albums as these...
...John, are separately housed in the 90-ft, freestanding bell tower that looms at the entrance. "I congratulate the architect on the excellence of his design," said Cardinal Heenan as the bells pealed on Whitsunday. "He spoke in a new language, but has not used any tricks which would embarrass those who will come later. This is authentic art, and it will be admired so long as men cherish beauty...
...good." Carson describes that talent as "an affinity for editing and pacing"-putting together the right combination of guests, switching subjects when things get dull, throwing in a lively comment at the right moment. "I feel uncomfortable making the guest uncomfortable," he explains. "I don't like to embarrass people...