Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pilot Victor Grubbs, 56, who had 32 years experience, actually been directed by the tower to take an awkward, 135° backward exit onto Tenerife's ramp C-3 rather than use the more gently angled ramp C4? Grubbs was heading toward C-4 as he moved to get in position behind the KLM plane to make his own takeoff. If he had made the earlier turn, he might have been clear of the runway before the KLM 747 reached that exit point...
...realizes there is only confusion on the battlefield and in this admission of his impotence, there is strength. In the play, however, Pierre simulates the battle, moving model soldiers across a lighted destiny stage as the generals yell and cannonballs whistle and burst in the background. It is an awkward scene anyway, with the aristocrat straining to shift the wooden pieces, but Toope's Pierre resembles little more than a boy playing with his toy soldiers. The question "Why? Why? And for whom?" remains...
...timing could not be more awkward for the President. In early May, he will go to a seven-nation economic summit in London to argue, among other things, for free trade and lower tariff barriers. He must make a decision on shoe tariffs by April 9, and on sugar and color-TV imports one to two weeks after the summit. If the President acts to cut imports sharply, his free-trade evangelism in London will seem hollow or even hypocritical. If he ignores the protectionist pressures, his summit partners will be pleased, but Carter will face domestic protest...
...trouble began in 1974, when the already battered Daily News merged its advertising, circulation and production departments with those of the far larger Times (circ. 45,350). Only the editorial departments remained separate: the News continued to ask awkward questions about conservation while the Times remained boosterish about the Alaska oil pipeline and any other scheme that might improve the state's economy...
...told friends. Then, two weeks before his disappearance, the pension fund trustees turned down what is known in the union as Bramlet's "memorial hospital." Said an insider: "That thing was just too shaky. The trustees couldn't hold still for it." Bramlet was left in the awkward position of not having come through...