Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, and his performance is one that should not be missed. He is best supported by his daughter, Paula, and by Nancy Duncan, who play his grand-daughter and daughter respectively. Nancy Duncan again shows her versatility as an actress in the role of the truly bird-brained awkward ballerina. These three carry the performance with the able help of Jacqueline DeSuz in the tiny role of a drunken actress. The rest of the cast lacks the precision which such comedies require and as a result there are moments when the antics of this strange family become less than humorous...
...background could hardly be more different from Mrs. Macy's fashion career. He played basketball at Iowa's Grinnell College, before going to Manhattan as a $45-a-month social worker. In those days he was shy, uncertain, socially awkward. But he learned fast...
...revolutions in history was a very rich man, perhaps the richest in the Colonies. He was also a very simple man, a foxhunting Virginia plantation squire, "slow and awkward at introspection, which he regarded as something slightly sordid." He was a man of colossal dignity. He had thin red hair, outsize hands, feet, nose, jaw, and his outsize body was "skin wound on bones, with broad shoulders and broader hips." His face was deeply pockmarked. When he could not sleep, he used to reassure himself by stroking the scars. He was "a sickly man, and he had the sickly...
...mound Hoftyzer worked himself in and out of a series of awkward positions. He pitched four straight balls to the first batter to face him, and gave the next a single through third. A double play from Gallagher to Fitzgibbons quieted activities in the bullpen and saved the inning...
...other Irish, for Eire faces several acute war-born shortages. Coal and gasoline are so scarce that Irish trains have grown fewer and less predictable than ever; many passenger buses are being discontinued. After a generation of disuse, sailing-boat transports sail again. Dublin streets swarm with hundreds of awkward, new bicycle riders, and Dubliners who own autos have hitched horses to them. Paraffin is so scarce that Donegal peasants now use rushlights, make candles from mutton fat. Fisherfolk in the western islands are catching shark for oil to light homemade lamps. This spring the wheat shortage threatened a bread...