Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet band did the best it could with the awkward, unfamiliar strains of The Star-Spangled Banner. As it played, the sellout crowd in the Green Theater of the Gorky Park of Rest and Culture cheered, and the U.S. diplomatic corps stood bareheaded in the rain. It was clear that the bulge-muscled Americans, gathered in Moscow to bandy bar bells with the burliest Russians around, were as popular a bunch of visiting athletes as had competed in Russia in many a moon...
...have no timetable." said First Deputy Premier Mikoyan. The real meaning of the Russian offer, and of the timing, is that Russia is announcing-in advance of the summit parley-that the Kremlin is content for now to accept two Germanys. The offer was also meant to dramatize an awkward fact: the power to unite Germany and to restore its lost territories lies primarily with Russia. It could be done overnight by a single curt order to its hapless German satellite. It could be done without help or hindrance from the U.S., Britain or France...
...defend anti-Nazis in court when Hitler was riding high, was usually in trouble with the regime. As a translator in the German army he was busted from captain and shipped off to the Russian front as a machine gunner. Out of that experience he has written an awkward though well-intentioned book to illustrate what has by now become a cliché: that many a German soldier hated Hitler and the war but played it down the middle and did what he was told...
...ECONOMIST: THERE are two awkward facts about JL the proposal. Yearning for the summit has been, and still is, embarrassing for allied unity. The second is that since the death of Stalin it has been meaningless. Without taking at its face value all that the Russians say about collective leadership, it is still obvious that in Moscow now there is no "highest level." The mystical belief that a Churchill-Malenkov meeting could dissolve the solid differences that an Eden-Molotov meeting would merely register has lost all content today when the prospect is an Eden-Bulganin or Attlee-Bulganin meeting...
Like newborn colts, just experiencing first impressions, the contributors to the first Freshman Review wobble through their first fearless but awkward steps. As Archibald MacLeish says in his extremely frank foreword, "There is nowhere . . . the signature of incontestable talent." The stories are in many places rough and virtually formless, yet they are, at least, frank and unhesitantly autobiographical...