Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictates of their best judgment, without jeopardizing the firm foundations of their understanding." Said the London Economist: "Britain's proper attitude towards the U.S. is the attitude that Australia has long maintained towards Britain. It is an attitude of blasphemous private candor about most matters and about awkward Foreign Secretaries, but of sufficient loyalty to allow any American leader to feel confident that when really big issues arise, Britain will never deceive...
...bitter about what the North did to the South in the Civil War. In mistitled Love Me Tender, a new star from Tennesse, Elvis Presley, who looks like a cross between Estes Kefauver and Rudolph Valentino, takes up the battle for the rebs and symbolizes his resentment in several awkward gesticulations with his thighs...
...executive offices in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, the Guild found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
Tiley, 215-pound sophomore, showed his ability to perform the exacting fullback duties in Coach Charlie Caldwell's complicated single wing pattern in the opening game against Colgate. Against Columbia, Morris, just a tall, awkward sub for the brilliant Royce Flippin last year, took over and scored three touchdowns. A week later Mottley, whose name isn't in the pre-season brochure, sparked the attack...
...Carthage, he finds the lovely Shala up to her violet eyes in swains. Her "little shock of incredulity" on seeing him for the first time yields to ever greater shocks as Ashe clanks through her admiring herd, disconcerting the urbane and unhorsing the sophisticated by sheer force of his awkward ardor. He pokes an oil princeling in the snoot, almost drowns the handsome son of the grand vizier. In a final melodramatic bid for Shala's heart. he parachutes into the Sahara Desert to engage a rival in mortal combat. Caught up in his exuberant campaign, he scarcely notices...