Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heisenberg uncertainty principle, as you could wax sententious about discovering our own fantasies by acting them out, in the paradoxical and not-to-be-revealed ending of Magritte. But what is impressive is that all this is done so lightly, so cleverly, that it ought to embarrass the critic to get heavy about it. Stoppard's plots are so well devised, every funny line is so well ensconced in its context, that the critic is put in danger of being fooled himself, and looking the fool if he tries to put his hands on the heart of these plays...
...political observers it looked like a slip 'twixt cup and coup. After last month's student riots during Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka's visit to Jakarta, Sumitro cracked heads with such vengeance (800 arrested and nine publications closed) that he seemed to be attempting to embarrass Suharto by exaggerating the extent of the opposition...
...former Secretary of Agriculture, who is now senior apostle and head of the council, has flustered many Mormons with his abrasive public utterances, some of them to John Birch Society audiences. His benediction at the funeral of President McKay was so heavy with right-wing political overtones as to embarrass even the conservative Mormon hierarchy. Now the divisive Benson is next in the wings, as amiable President Kimball begins his regime...
...Patrick's Day Riot in 1972 first put Walpole in the news and established Boone's opposition. In an attempt to embarrass Boone's administration, the guards left the prison and then claimed that there was a race riot inside. Boone told newsmen that Walpole did not have a race riot but a guard-instigated riot. He proved this by showing that although the prisoners had done $1 million of material damage, not one prisoner was hurt...
Some Arab and Western leaders conclude that the terrorists were trying both to sabotage the Geneva conference and to embarrass the Arab "establishment," which includes Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein. The latest hijacking was one of several that have coincided lately with international meetings among Arab government leaders and others who might find a formula for peace. On the opening day of the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Algiers last September, Black September gunmen attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris, took Saudi hostages, and finally surrendered in Kuwait...