Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil got along in past elections with an awkward arrangement under which each party printed and distributed ballots listing only its own candidates. That system gave an extra advantage to the bigger, better-organized parties with more funds to spend for ballots and more effective methods of distributing them. Last week, in the record time of 15 minutes, the Senate unanimously passed a bill requiring the use of uniform ballots listing all candidates. Three minutes after the measure landed on his desk, President João Café Filho signed it into law. Reason for the haste: military leaders...
...Such awkward moments are a commonplace each summer at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. St. Elizabeths, a Government hospital, is a summer laboratory for a new and growing part of modern ministerial training among the mentally...
Time to Delay. Last week "the Keef's" California supporters decided that they would enter his name in their state preferential primary next year. Harriman, busily politicking about Chicago (although his awkward eagerness among the easygoing pols reminded one observer of a man trying to enjoy himself at a party after he had lost one shoe), was taken seriously, if not affectionately...
...administrative scandals have erupted, e.g., the Houston grain scandal and the veterans' land mess (see-below). Although none of these implicated the governor personally, they were laid at his door. And at the start of his seventh year as governor, lanky Allan Shivers finds himself in the awkward role of the man who came to dinner. As one Dallas Democrat put it: "He's stayed too damn long...
...watching world saw in Ike the face of the U.S. as it had never seen it before. It was the face of a man of peace, in whom there were no thoughts of aggressive war. Beside Ike's shining sincerity, the Russians' newly assumed amiability showed awkward and stiff...