Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passing of the spring term leaves Samborski with an awkward problem on his hands. Though the spring season has not yet been declared defunct several of the regulars are hot registered this term and are not in Cambridge. These men, however, are still eligible and although there is little likelihood that any of them will play against B.U., Samborski is counting on them for the Yale contest...
...fill in the awkward pauses between the trumpeting; the crooning, a style show full of gorgeous models and a big classics v. swing concert by a full symphony orchestra, a rudimentary plot is occasionally visible. The only interesting part of this plot is Miss O'Hara's version of the reliable old ugly-duckling-into-swan routine...
...Brady had never had a lesson, and her work showed it. But the best of it possessed an effective if awkward directness. Au Bout on d'Or (see cut) looked static at first glance, but it had just the sexy-sweet, penny-arcade nostalgia she was trying for: the memory of summer nights when it is too hot to pull the shades and the city turns into a bright hive of private worlds...
...giving mood Russia has shown in Paris (see above) spread to The Bronx just in time to save the Security Council from another awkward split...
...first, it was as awkward as a righthander trying to pitch lefthanded. The trick was to thump the board hard enough with his 135 lbs. to get up high in the air. His weak leg limited him to an hour and a half's practice a day; he used to practice three hours...