Word: awkward
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...They broke off the engagement in October, but they were stuck together in one room for the rest of senior year," says Isselbacher. "They even started to date other people. Brian told me once that it was really awkward when he brought a date back home...
...mishap comes at an awkward time for Britain, where planners are eager to build a new generation of nuclear plants. While Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared last week, "The record of our own nuclear-power industry is absolutely superb," Chernobyl could force long delays in approval of the utilities. Once the disaster became known, environmental groups quickly called for demonstrations...
...older children, Joseph and Yekaterina, who were 22 and 17 when she left them in 1966, and her two grandchildren. She claimed that the Soviets directed the script for her return press conference. Said she: "They made me write texts in Russia, which they all approved. I felt very awkward. I wanted to say simply, 'I came to join my children...
...play's problems result from a simple lack of space. The Real Thing is extremely physical, with constant exits and entrances, and the stage is too small to accommodate all of the action. The set changes are also a bit awkward and anti-climactic in the cramped quarters...
Short of sending in the Marines, what is the best way for the U.S. to deal with the Sandinistas? It is an awkward fact that the U.S. can find no official support anywhere in Central or South America for sponsoring the contras. Indeed, eight Latin American countries--Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru--joined last month to urge the U.S. not to aid the contras, but rather to press for a regional peace treaty...