Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complexities of Pirandello's thought are rendered more intricate by the translation. In a probable effort to reproduce the style of his original Mr. Moncrieff has produced an English titled, awkward and difficult, without much excuse for being so. The following is an example, picked absolutely at random; worse could be found...
Captain Ellison is at the same time one of the most awkward and the most effective of hockey players. With a peculiar gait, comparable perhaps to that displayed by great open field runners such as Grange and Mahan, he moves up the ice at a speed that is not apparent from the spectators' seats. On the defensive, his tremendous reach, his weight and his aggressiveness make him effective if not graceful. Coady, who will report for hockey after a two weeks lay-off, is of all the Crimson skaters the least versatile, but he makes up, in the excellence...
Sixth Game. Awkward Gehrig reached for a curve. Koenig watched three strikes go by. Collins, getting into the game in the ninth with his team eight runs behind, swung three times at nothing. These and other able Yankee gentlemen fell victims to the wiles of a man whom the sports writers have in past seasons mentioned alternately as a rake and a curmudgeon, the grim Grover Cleveland Alexander. Long before the game he declared that he would win. He chewed tobacco and went to sleep on second base. But with the young bats of his cardinal-hatted friends rat-tatting...
...managing to win it, 6-4, only because Lacoste obviously expected to be beaten and made errors. Lacoste's game has always irritated Tilden. It is a suave game, a soft-spoken game of placements that look easy because the man who reaches for them looks so awkward-of strokes that a hard-hitting player can kill only if he is very careful. Last year Lacoste reached match-point four times before Tilden beat him. The champion was teasing, people said; he gave away points to get an incentive...
...since 1875 not one Democratic Senator has been returned from that state, and ordinarily none but a Republican has a chance even in his own opinion. But Mr. Norris sensibly pointed out that the cheapest and least embarrassing way for the old party to save itself the awkward task of removing Mr. Vare (who won the $3,000,000 primary campaign) is not to elect him next November. Mr. Norris' plan of political surgery was the more happy because, oddly, the Democratic nominee happens to be a man of some note-William Bauchop Wilson, onetime Cabinet member under Woodrow...