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...leak came at an awkward moment for the Reagan Administration, which had been embroiled in a dispute with Congress over funding of the controversial MX missile. Barely a week before, during the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz had got a reaffirmation of West European support for NATO's missile-basing scheme on the Continent. As his two-week European tour drew to a close, Shultz did his best to minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President Fran...
...hush fell over the group as all eyes turned to Ronald Reagan. But the President said nothing, and his face betrayed no expression. After a moment or two, the silence became awkward. Officials rushed to break it by questioning Stockman about this obscure number or that...
...soon," Perkins said. "His spike scratched my leg and then took off my shoe. I decided to keep on. I had nothing to lose. It wasn't really painful, just a bit awkward...
Students teaching and taking the undergraduates' sections also praise the peer relationship that can develop in the situation. In some cases, though, where the student is older than, or the same age as, the instructor, things can be a little awkward...
...someone like David Lean can bring to work of this kind rarely crackles from the screen. Historical personages are played by stars (John Gielgud as Lord Irwin, Candice Bergen as Photographer Margaret Bourke-White), who do their bits professionally but more often than not are forced to carry an awkward burden of exposition. They are history's telegraphers rather than emotionally involved characters in history's drama...