Word: embarrassingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...near Amman after reconnoitering along Jordan's frontier. But the Syrian lad who climbed out of the cockpit seemed too young to be shot, too honest and helpful even to punish severely. Instead, the Jordanians decided that Lieut. Adnan Madani, 24, would make a useful propaganda weapon to embarrass Gamal Abdel Nasser. By trotting Madani out as a "defector," Jordan could "prove" that Syrians were unhappy in Nasser's U.A.R...
...witnesses, urged a U.A.R. diplomat to come and see for himself the genuineness of the suicide. But Cairo now had another tune to play. Nasser's radio hurled charges of murder, suggesting that King Hussein's brother and uncle personally ordered the shooting. When Jordan's embarrassed funeral cortege reached the Syrian frontier to turn the body back, U.A.R. guards swept the Jordanian wreaths into the roadside dust. In Damascus and Cairo the U.A.R.'s propagandists and patriots staged a triumphant demonstration for the boy who, rather than embarrass his country, had chosen death...
ALONG with all of its politicking, is Congress going to do any real lawmaking? Nowhere near as much as the partisan demands might indicate. The Republicans are trying to embarrass the Democrats on civil rights, but expect no new legislation to be passed. The Democrats accuse the Administration of neglecting national defense, but are not planning any major increases in defense appropriations. The Democrats are set to ignore several of the measures that the President called for in his message to Congress, including a new farm bill, increases in postal rates, authorization of 40 new federal judgeships, liberalization of immigration...
...responsibility. A Southerner, utterly dependent upon Southern support in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, he painstakingly steered through the Senate this year a civil rights bill guaranteeing the voting rights of Southern Negroes. Instead of trying to use the U-2 imbroglio and the summit collapse to embarrass the Administration in an election year, he spoke out for national unity...
...wide range of manufactured goods ends next year. Raab would like to convert the agreement into a straight trade deal, so that the Russians would buy what the Austrians have heretofore been forced to give them free. He also wants to avoid any Khrushchev temper tantrums that would embarrass Austrian neutrality...