Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...established U.S. airlines, North American Airlines is neither swan nor goose but an unloved and awkward swoose. Technically a nonscheduled operator under CAB rules calling for "irregular" and "infrequent" flights, it has nevertheless grown into a $9,000,000 outfit operating one of the biggest transcontinental air-coach services. Last week, with North American's 1954 sales topping $11 million, the CAB decided to clip the big hybrid's wings. A CAB examiner recommended that North American be grounded for operating a scheduled airline in violation of CAB regulations...
...story, an engineer named Harvey Lindfield-lonely, bored and bewildered by the drab meanness of life in a manufacturing town-gingerly walks through a library door into The Other Place. There he basks in sunshine and fellowship among the townspeople with whom he used to be shy and awkward but who are now transformed into his friends. Then his own lustful impatience leads him to open a girl's door too soon, and he finds himself back in his miserable old world. In other fantasies, a movie director and his script-writing wife win back brief happiness...
Even the servants disapproved of the lonely, awkward girl. Once when Edith was reading the Bible at family services, she happened to glance at the butler's solemn face and burst out giggling. "The butler rose and looked around at the maidservants, who all got to their feet and silently trooped...
...problem of controlling colored immigration is an awkward one in a commonwealth in which 460 million of its 540 million citizens are colored in one shade or another. Answering a question in Parliament recently, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs Henry Hopkinson declared: "In a world in which restrictions on personal movement and immigration have increased, we still take pride in the fact that a man can say civis Britannicus sum whatever his color may be, and we take pride in the fact that he wants and can come to the mother country . . . That is not something we wish...
...varsity hockey team, sparked by center Bill Cleary with a goal and three assists, last night outskated and outpassed an awkward but struggling B.U. team to win, 6 to 2, at the Garden...