Word: awkward
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Like the bashful hero of a '30s movie, Captain Testrake humbly gave thanks to anyone and everyone who had kept the hostages in thoughts and prayers. When he finished, there was an awkward moment, as though no one was quite sure what came next. Reagan spontaneously filled in the missing lines. He leaned over to the microphone and said, with a smile and a note of gentle exhortation, "Go home...
...meantime, the NCAA grew bigger, more awkward and more un-wieldly...
...announcing that he did not want her to speak her native tongue when his schoolmates came to visit at their Culver City, Calif., home. "All his friends are American, and in his concept of himself he is American," sighs Kaori. The parents' poor command of English can prove awkward. Children are pressed into service for their immigrant parents in all kinds of circumstances: when the electric company sends a dunning notice, the landlord needs a lease signed, a policeman needs information...
...swap occurred while Washington was preoccupied with the Walker spy scandal. "We considered the awkward timing," said a senior U.S. diplomat. "But we felt this was sufficiently different so we could go forward. Besides, it had been so painstaking to put together...
John Kennedy used to wonder what he would do with himself after he finished his second term in the White House. He would be at "the awkward age" then, he said, "too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs...