Word: awkward
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...they still look overwhelmed; their eyes flit over everything in our tiny box of a room. There is an awkward silence, and then someone invariably says, "Does...does the Lego phone really work...
Strangely enough, our geeky toys actually help our social lives. They alleviate those awkward moments--we have enough conversation pieces to last us through our next two years at Harvard. If a male guest starts feeling uneasy, he can always reach for the toys. In Dunster C-26, we've seen it many times...
Johnson said the slurs were almost certainlywritten by someone connected to Harvard. "It's ina very awkward position for an outsider [toreach]," he said...
...were unfairly blamed for the sins of the worst offenders. Of the 355 House members who were found to have written bad checks at one time or another, probably a majority did so inadvertently. This group was particularly bitter over the bank's sloppy management and the Speaker's awkward handling of the affair...
Today's videosurgeons fervently hope that by that time their equipment will have greatly improved so they will no longer get cricks in their necks (from craning to watch a TV) and elbows (from manipulating long-handled instruments of awkward design). A few dream of operating by remote control, their heads encased in virtual-reality helmets. Don't laugh, they chide skeptics. On the drawing boards at SRI International is an inkling of just such a system, one that might someday allow a surgeon in St. Louis to operate on an astronaut in low earth orbit. Even better...