Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Letts labeled the settlement "a magnificent disposition." It left a federal court acting as a supervisor over a labor union, an awkward arrangement that responsible labor leaders can hardly view with composure. And it confirmed as president of the U.S.'s biggest labor union (1,400,000 claimed members) a man whom the A.F.L.-C.I.O. deemed unfit for leadership in the united labor movement...
Rites of Passage. As a 5 ft. 9 in. freshman on the Baton Rouge High School team, Pettit was so awkward he was cut from the squad. Then he began to grow, by his senior year was 6 ft. 7 in., and, although he moved like an unhinged giraffe, scored enough to get scholarship bids from some two dozen colleges. Pettit chose Louisiana State University, was an All-American for two years in a row, and in 1954 was the first-draft choice of the St. Louis Hawks. A handsome, lithe giant, Bob Pettit soon found that the pros play...
Words are not enough to describe the silent beauty of this man's every step and gesture. The tilt of his head or the stoop of his shoulders, the raising of his hand or the arching of his brow, make a prose description something quite awkward if not faintly sacrilegious. Marcel Marceau is an accomplished actor, a striking artist, and a wondrous, wordless poet...
...explaining the dangers of the policy, the two professors stated that "in the last century high interest rates were almost always followed by a lump in business activity." They called for a "strong fiscal policy--one that even accepts the awkward need to increase taxes as a means of countering inflation...
Patricia Adel has a face that can freeze into a vividly discomforting mask; her movement is sometimes less successful, although properly awkward. Lucienne Schupf, extremely energetic, skillfully emphasizes the over-theatrical, nearly manic-depressive moods of her pitiful character. She throws sparks into an atmosphere that is designed to baffle and perhaps poison the audience. Katherine Kitch, as Madame, seemed nervous, and acted in a series of poses...