Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhere in his awkward, perverse system he had the makings of a winner. By the end of his two-year-old season, stiff-necked Count Fleet had won ten out of 15 starts, had earned $76,000, was tabbed the fastest juvenile in the history of thoroughbred racing...
...crowd's attention was long-necked, jut-elbowed Center Harry ("Big Boy") Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When it came to playing basketball, there was nothing awkward about Coach Lapchick's team-or about the way Boykoff reached above the basket to bat out opponents' certain scores...
...Gounod's imperishable score. . . . Sometimes the result was so delightful you wished the stars would stop singing." Throughout the winter Sir Thomas has been one of the chief ornaments of the Met's conductorially brilliant season on its home grounds. Between times he has galvanized the young, awkward Brooklyn Symphony into an ensemble which shamed the venerable New York Philharmonic-Symphony across the river. Sir Thomas is too independent, both financially and personally, to bother with the politics that are usually required to get and keep the outstanding symphony conductorships...
...fewer & fewer occasions when the Germans seized local command, the Allies won ascendancy and held it. During the first four months the Allies destroyed 790 Axis planes over Northwest Africa, lost 333. During the past six weeks U.S. pilots have scored 2-1. They had come far since the awkward, learning days of early winter...
Pete Brown and Frankie Newton were the heroes of the day, Brown working the hardest and longest, and playing better than ever before, Newton saving the concert at an awkward moment with superb showmanship. The finest music in the session came when they jammed together with three former members of Frankie's band, the Trottman brothers on piano and bass, and Billy Mason on drums. The outfit blended perfectly and the ensembles were terrific...