Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's Will" if it can get them out of the war without penalty. Except for the brief moment of Count Michael Károlyi's Republic at the end of World War I, Hungary has never seriously tried democracy and the first moves were awkward...
From Moscow came another sign that the Soviet cycle from world revolution to nationalism had run its course. On the eve of Joseph Stalin's 64th birthday, the Soviet Union ditched the stirring, incendiary Internationale as the State anthem, substituted an awkward paean to Stalin and the New Russia...
...there were just too many displays of awkward amateurishness in "Johnny Come Lately" to make it anything but a sub-par picture. Most glaring weakness was the dialogue, with the plot and some of the acting fighting hard to make it a photofinish. Cagney did his best, and, by working like a dog, made most of his scenes tolerable--many even enjoyable...
There were awkward situations with foreigners (many of the royal relatives were Germans who never quite mastered English). Prince John of Glucksburg nearly caused a rising of the clans by shouting enthusiastically at a Highland ball: "I am agreeable to see the Queen dances like a pot." (He meant...
Precise Vision. The Duke who emerges when the bars of modernity are down is a deep and thoughtful man. A tall, awkward, lonely, violin-playing boy whose father died when he was twelve, he did not want to be a soldier. He wanted to work in a bank. He learned the effectiveness of the armies of revolutionary France when he commanded the rear guard in the Duke of York's disastrous expedition to The Netherlands in 1794, from which 6,000 of 25,000 recruits returned. With the clear-sightedness of innocent sanity he knew thereafter that England could...