Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President of the U.S. ordered your son to attend your inauguration,' Dad said. 'If you think somebody was trying to embarrass you, then the President assumes full responsibility...
...reached the Capitol, they went to the sergeant-at-arms' office to wait for the summons to the platform. Ike suddenly turned to Dad and said: 'I wonder who is responsible for my son John being ordered to Washington from Korea? I wonder who is trying to embarrass...
...have if someone writes that he is not worthy of his appointment? Expressions of opinion, however inaccurate or misleading, are protected. Still, it is not irrelevant in the present instance that these opinions are also based on error, indeed, on such an array of misinformation as would (or should) embarrass the most hardened exponent of advocacy journalism. To choose just three blatant examples...
...real battleground," says Economist Fabian Estape, "is Spain's place in the world. Those now in positions of power and those seeking power are sharply divided on the issue. One of the greatest ways to embarrass this government would be to issue it an invitation to join the European Economic Community." That is not likely to happen, although the EEC is about to allow Spain generous tariff reductions on industrial goods and most agricultural products...
...about New York's painter laureate of the lonely crowd, Raphael Soyer (twin brother of Moses Soyer, another figurative artist). Raphael was an honest and compassionate observer of human gesture. But the reproductions of his paintings here are often given the kind of gala centerfold treatment that might embarrass Michelangelo. Moreover, Lloyd Goodrich's prose commentary unfurls like a bolt of wet wool...