Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awkward, hardheaded slugger, willing to take a punch to land one. But when he landed, his opponent usually dropped. Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It took him only eight rounds to dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life...
...Onassis, controlling croupier of Monte Carlo's famed Casino, bombarded Grace and His Serene Highness with 500 red and white carnations. Aboard Deo_ Juvante the lovers closed for a buss, were thwarted by a fast block thrown by Grace's arm-held poodle Oliver, settled on an awkward, unromantic handshake...
...Failure of Gamesmanship. Using paddles with soft, sponge-rubber faces that take the ping out of pingpong but slice off some wicked spins, the agile and tireless Japanese wasted no time taking the Swaythling Cup. They stuck stubbornly to their unorthodox "penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge...
...Guglielmo explained that the resolution placed him in an "awkward position." He said that "although I respect McCormack and will probably support him if he is a candidate, I do not want to be constrained by any choice I make at this time...
...athletic ability." ("I'm not well coordinated," he explains.) So he was doubly surprised to find that Counsilman, who was a national breaststroke champion in 1948 when he was a student at Ohio State, meant what he said. The coach had seen something "intangible" in Breen's awkward splashing, and the boy seemed just the one to help Counsilman test some of his unorthodox theories about swimming styles...