Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Possibly it amuses Trader Cutten to see the agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such...
Meagre enough, these items, bearing as they do upon that awkward, austere, magical name whose connotation is an unquotable sum and an unknown personality. Yet, out of such flying hints, has grown the outline of a character, blurred at first, like a face vaguely limned in charcoal scratches, clarified little by little with inkier facts, until the quality and temper of the man have come to stand out distinct, significant...
...there are drawbacks. One must train assiduously. One must never seem awkward in action, never miss the single death stroke. To do either brings hisses, discredit, disgrace. The crowd knows the rules of the game meticulously and insists that its pleasure be exquisitely executed, from the first gravely passionate bar of the Carmen music that is always played, to the way the "butcher" or dagger-man delivers one last stroke of mercy when the bull is in his death throes. Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust...
...Called Peter. The church, as anyone will recall who read Robert Keable's novel, bears the brunt of the attack. A British Army chaplain does his level best to be a good fellow and finds that being a good fellow and remaining on the level best make an awkward combination...
Stafford alone approached doing what the coaches expected of him. Time and again it was this 145-pound pilot who dropped the Tiger after he had broken through the forward line. His judgment on punts was usually good, except for one occasion when the ball took an awkward bounce and failed to roll over the goal line as he had expected. On running back punts he was ineffective because he received practically no support in the way of interference...