Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...minute--of the final years of Alexander Panagoulis. And Alekos is not "a man," but a revolutionary consumed by his cause. He swears in the face of his torturers as they probe him with electric shocks; days after finishing five years in prison, he resumes dangerous underground activities; to embarrass the government, he begs the jury hearing his case to punish him with a death sentence. In his moral perfection, Alekos transcends us all, just as he transcends his biographer, leaving the reader humiliated, numb, outside...
...Marge Roukema, 51, raised only $142,000 and lost by 6% of the vote to Democratic Incumbent Andrew Maguire, 41. Says she: "I had fund-raising trouble. I was victimized by people who said, 'She's a woman. Let's hope that she doesn't embarrass herself.' " This year she has raised $258,000, former President Gerald Ford has campaigned on her behalf, and she has a good chance of beating Maguire...
...Senators wanted to know why Brzezinski felt free to use information from a classified CIA report in warning Billy that his actions in Libya might embarrass the Administration. Brzezinski explained that on receiving the damaging report from CIA Director Stansfield Turner, he pondered the matter over lunch in his office, then concluded that "I would serve the President better if I first admonished Billy." According to Brzezinski, the President later told him, "You did the right thing." There was no breach of security, said Brzezinski, nor did he risk revealing the source of the CIA's information. Said Brzezinski...
...wouldn't even tell them which haystack?" In any event, Heymann's deputies required only six weeks to learn the information on their own. The President's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was even quicker. He had already warned Billy that his Libyan negotiations might embarrass his brother. Justice Department lawyers are now investigating whether Brzezinski violated federal espionage laws...
...brothers who can most directly embarrass the President. They often vividly demonstrate what else besides potential greatness is swimming around in the gene pool. To reach apotheosis in the White House, the family's paragon has progressed through a series of popular idealizations and magnifications ... and then here comes his brother capering after him, making faces, blowing bubbles, wearing funny hats. It spoils the illusion...