Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand on an issue, you're very foolish if you try to beat around the bush-you just meet yourself going around the bush the other way." On the other hand, she admits that when she occasionally disagrees with her husband, she "wouldn't want to embarrass him by opposing his position [in public]. That I'll do in the privacy of our own sitting room...
...important step in perfecting techniques that will enable them to orbit space stations capable of accommodating up to 120 people for periods as long as ten years. Says Representative Don Fuqua, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications: "The Russians may try to leap ahead, embarrass us if they can, with a 'surprise' in manned space...
...strained relations between the two governments also aroused a few suspicions (quickly denied in Washington) that U.S. intelligence, in order to embarrass Rabin, might have leaked stories to the effect that recent Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai were not what they seemed to be. At the end of Ford's meeting with Sadat, the Israelis, as a token of their interest in peace, announced that they were thinning out their 7,000 troops in the Limited Forces Zone in the Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors...
...lives. Newspapers have begun to run classified ads asking the whereabouts of scores of people who have simply disappeared from campuses, homes or offices. There is concern in Washington that left-wing terrorists may use the occasion of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visit this week to embarrass President Perón by kidnaping or even assassinating her guest...
Councilor David A. Wylie, who supported the order but opposes any pay increase for the workers, accused Danehy and Clinton of trying to make political capital out of the workers' demands. "Danehy and Clinton are using this as a means to embarrass the city manager," he said...