Word: awkward
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...great way of making me feel like an outsider. I will always remember how he preached family values, yet was a divorcee, and had awkward relationships with his own children. I remember how AIDS was ignored. Not much of a legacy as far as I am concerned. Earle Dardar Houston...
...principled opposition to the Bush Administration and populist demagoguery on the two main issues of this election, the war and the economy. This is a particularly crucial choice for Howard Dean, who wants to build his candidacy past Internet insurgency toward a broader audience. Indeed, Dean's subdued and awkward performance, and his slipperiness on both issues, seemed a rare moment of indecision in what has been a steamroller campaign...
Franken said he regretted sending the letters, “because the Shorenstein Center is totally above board, and I put them in an awkward position...
...other youngsters interviewed for this story, he asked that his real name not be used.) Seeking a way to help her son out of his growing isolation, Alexander's mother sent him to Peer Play Groups, a New York City-based program that works with children who are socially awkward. In weekly, one-hour sessions, Alexander learned ways to interact with kids his own age. "They taught me how to have fun, how to talk with other people at school," he says. "Now I'm not so quiet anymore...
...coming. It's like a lifeline for them," says Peer Play Groups' Greenbaum. A very affectionate third-grader who alienated classmates by standing too close when she spoke or hugging them at inappropriate times was so delighted with her group that she mentioned it to a classmate who was awkward and being ostracized. The boy got his parents to enroll him and, says the girl's mother, he is "doing really well...