Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment of redemption and of greatest dignity is reserved for the tailor, a crusty old bourgeois who finally be comes sick of hiding and accepting the humiliation and, worse, the awkward help of Lucien. Wonderfully portrayed by Holger Lownadler, the tailor dresses in his best suit and pays a social call on Lucien at police headquarters, where he is promptly arrested. He has salvaged, at least, whatever remains of his honor...
...Adams House film society displayed insensitivity by presenting the film in a forum--a series on early screen classics--that made a political discussion of this political film awkward. The offer that film society leaders made to let a spokesman for the demonstrators speak before the showing was a good-faith attempt to ease differences--but as William J. Fletcher Jr. '76, a protest organizer, observed, "To go in front of an audience that is prepared for entertainment and to talk about politics would cause problems." The brief acknowledgement by a film society leader of the movie's blatantly racist...
After the hearings, the committee seemed sure to endorse Rockefeller, unless a review of his tax returns now being conducted by the Internal Revenue Service raises awkward questions. Because the Senate will recess in mid-October for the upcoming elections, Chairman Howard W. Cannon does not expect the committee to vote on Rockefeller until November. The House Judiciary Committee will probably conduct its hearings after the elections, which will prevent Rocky from campaigning for fellow Republicans. Then, presumably before year's end, both the House and the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Nelson Rockefeller as the 41st...
...showdown worthy of "High Noon," with Bond's 12-meter yacht Southern Cross rated as the best shot in the history of the event to wrest the awkward Silver trophy from its secure position in the headquarters of the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan. Twenty-one other challengers had tried before to take the cup home, but none had succeeded. THIS, the pundits predicted, was to be the year that the United States could lose, and the Cross would be the boat...
...next step to peace. For one thing, in the Israeli view, there is no need to discuss disengagement, since Israeli troops are not eyeball to eyeball with the Jordanians as they were with Arab forces on the Golan and in Sinai. For another, such discussions would be politically awkward at home. Rabin's fragile coalition is governing Israel with a parliamentary majority of one. If Rabin were to negotiate with Jordan, his coalition might be toppled by the right wing of his own Labor Party, which agrees with the principal religious party that Israel should retain the West Bank...