Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members that the GOP?s slender majority (not to mention his own job) is riding on this vote. And he?s breaking the first rule of congressional politics: He doesn?t even know how it?s going to turn out. "This is becoming yet another opportunity for Republicans to embarrass themselves," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Tax cuts are their last signature issue. If they can?t even bring their own party along, how can they lead Congress...
...There are times you will disagree with me," hetold a Sunday morning meeting of the NorthernGrafton County Republican Committee in Franconia,N.H., "But I promise I will always act out ofprinciple, and I will never embarrass...
Part of what prompted him to give it up, a friend says, was that "he didn't want to do anything under the influence that might embarrass his father," who was preparing to run for President. George W. was also experiencing a religious awakening, one that began with his now famous 1985 encounter with evangelist Billy Graham, at the Bush-family compound in Kennebunkport, Me. After praying privately with Graham--"It was a real personal religious visit," he says--he joined a men's Bible-study group in Midland, "taking inventory of himself," his friend Donald Ensenat says...
...There was quite a bit of pressure on us not to invite speakers who would embarrass the University," Bellah says, adding that the pressure never came from Conant himself...
...There was quite a bit of pressure on us not toinvite speakers who would embarrass theUniversity," Bellah says, adding that the pressurenever came from Conant himself...