Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspaper account of racial violence in the Charlotte schools. "I wouldn't have approved this trip if I had known what was going on down there," he said. "I feel that Boston has been painted as being barbarian. The whole thing was a public relations effort to embarrass Boston...
...general's forced retirement in 1969 when Giscard urged a non vote against De Gaulle. Even Mitterrand's ally, Communist Boss Georges Marchais, could not resist getting in on the act, despite the generally low profile his party has been keeping in order not to embarrass Mitterrand. "Gaullists and Communists, even if they have been sometimes violently opposed, have always been united at different stages," said Marchais...
...drought has claimed an equally grim toll in parts of Ethiopia. Provincial bureaucrats kept the horrific dimensions of the catastrophe secret from Addis Ababa, fearing that bad news would anger and embarrass Emperor Haile Selassie and perhaps lead to their own dismissal. Finally, last spring, the number of deaths grew so great that the bureaucrats had to admit their existence and ask for international aid. At first the drought seemed confined to eastern Ethiopia. But a new government survey uncovered big pockets of famine to the south and southeast of the capital. In Bale province alone an estimated...
...being established with the bourgeois world, a Soviet delegation was invited to a meeting held on some islands where stray dogs were sent to die. In other words, the Soviet delegation was being discriminated against by being invited there. In those days the capitalists never missed a chance to embarrass or offend the Soviet Union. I was afraid maybe this Camp David was the same sort of place where people who were mistrusted could be kept in quarantine, like a leper colony...
...Henry' from the scandals of the Nixon administration." The story quoted Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-N.J.) as saying that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did not make a strenuous effort to find out about Kissinger's involvement in setting up wiretaps. The committee did not want to embarrass Kissinger, Case explained...