Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Hermann Hagedorn, a former Harvard English instructor who has written or edited six previous books on T.R. (The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands), knew and loved the family well. His camera is sometimes less than candid, but even when freckles and awkward angles are airbrushed out, his snapshots are warm, intimate closeups that usually show what the outsider wants...
...neutralized. The agreement banning any foreign bases violated Cambodia's sovereignty, would deprive it of allies if Cambodia were invaded. French. British and Russian stormed in vain. Molotov denounced the whole thing as an American trick. Bedell Smith was called and asked to reason with the awkward fellow. Tep Than would not budge...
...probably in the long run outshine the limelight she has lived in. Like the "golden flower" of the Chinese contemplatives, her experience has been a redoubtable witness to a doubting age that when other helpers fail and comforts flee, the help of the helpless abides. The Unconquered, her technically awkward but moving film biography, therefore quite suitably presents itself as a sort of modest footnote to The Lives of the Saints...
...impression produced by the size of his extremities and by his flapping and wide-projecting ears may be removed by the appearance of kindliness, sagacity and the awkward bonhomie of his face...
Thus far, Mr. Peepers has concentrated on the minor problems of a high-school science teacher, played to awkward, heart-warming perfection by Wally Cox, who has spent as much time with eccentric friends and co-workers as he has on his sexless courtship of School Nurse Benoit. But even in television, things are bound to be different after a man gets married...