Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earlier years photographers had been uniformly kind and thoughtful, never snapping him in an awkward position. . . . Toward the last, however, they shot him from every angle and seemed to prefer the pictures that caught him with his mouth open or stooped forward...
...Rutgers eleven that has played considerable good football this fall, with nothing to lose and a great deal of prestige to gain, poses an awkward stumbling block today in the path of Dick Harlow's Varsity squad, as the Crimson team goes in quest of its sixth consecutive victory at the Stadium. Kick-off time 2 o'clock...
...courts to the other thousands of college men "because of the benefit of the intercollegiate program." The national publicity created by a winning team, the gate receipts from matches, the pride among alumni groups, all these are far more creditable to an institution of Harvard's stature than the awkward volleyings of a mob of ill-coordinated dubs every afternoon...
Sinatra turned the song down because its wide-ranged wails were too awkward to sing. Bandleaders and record companies were similarly shy. Then a Chicago crooner named Eddie Howard gave it a whirl. Within a month To Each His Own climbed to first place in the popular-song polls. Last week it was firmly established as the No. 1 song hit of the season...
...narrator is Jack Burden, a newspaperman and an angry fellow full of the sardonic lingo of the pressroom. The story he unreels with a series of flashbacks and asides is the story of Willie Stark, a poor farmer's awkward, hulking son from Mason City. Willie got his political start at home as county treasurer. He was honest, and that was why a Democratic faction in the state picked him up in the backwoods in 1926 and ran him in the primary for governor...