Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corners there were awkward architectural problems to be overcome. The builders, however, seemed reasonably confident...
Twenty-six years ago, 16 tall and rather green oarsmen took their first strokes for Harvard in the "Leviathan" training barge--newly launched that fall of 1928. Since these first awkward strokes, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 neophyte rowers have tried to master the fundamentals of catch and release aboard the flat-bottomed craft...
...Kennedy's support, complained that the Senator was not assisting party organization. Friction between the men was further increased when Furcolo tried to persuade Kennedy to put off a major surgical operation until after the election. The combination of Kennedy's reluctance to enter the campaign and Furcolo's awkward attempts to push him in have further irritated the sensitive relationship...
...father's increasing blindness, paralleling the increasing threat of war, attempts to give the book an air of gravity. Yet such devices--and there are many--seem merely pasted on to an essentially light story; I have the feeling that they do not belong here, that they are an awkward bow to something that Tuckerman cannot handle within the scope of his novel. Well worn phrases constantly appear, as when Teuckerman talks of an English boy, "He never did understand them (the French), although with thousands of his own kind he gave up his life on French soil...
...during his Washington to Berlin jaunt a few weeks ago, unofficial State Department spokesmen confirmed what was obvious to Parisians: Dulles had declined a conference with Premier Mendes-France to show the French people that the U.S. disapproved of their premier's policy towards E.D.C. In contrast, the slightly awkward haste with which Dulles has sought out Mendes-France during the past few days seems a patch-work way of atoning for what could possibly be a serious diplomatic blunder...