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Word: awkwardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tentative proposals of their own. One was for either Syrian or Syrian-U.N. administration of all of Quneitra. Equally important, Damascus agreed to accept a U.S.-Soviet guarantee that Israel would eventually pull back from all captured Syrian territory rather than insist that Israel make a politically awkward public pledge to do so. The pull back, however, had to be the first item on the agenda at the peace talks in Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Bullets, Bombs and a Sign of Hope | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...whom it was extended) reminds me of a very similar situation a few short months ago with the rescinding of the invitation to speak extended to Mr. William Shockley by the Harvard Law School Forum. Even more so now than last fall, The Crimson has taken the absurd and awkward position that the Class Day committee (who I presume represents the entire class', and not just The Crimson's political leanings) tell one of the most respected men in the United States that his alma mater is no longer interested in hearing from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMON COURTESY | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...youngest daughter Lynn Redgrave, 30, for scoring her second success on Broadway, as the demon slimmer of My Fat Friend. Said Lynn ebulliently: "It's nice to know we're all working and can finally pay the rent." · Dinner with the boss is the kind of awkward evening that wives have to learn to cope with. But Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, 39, seemed to take it in stride when she appeared at her first official White House dinner (in honor of the Latin American foreign ministers), even when the boss singled her out. Said President Nixon: "We welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1974 | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...family that talks Burbank jive and is short of money. But in composition, attitudes and ambitions, the household is indistinguishable from the white families that heretofore have had exclusive domain in this TV neighborhood. There is one adolescent of each gender whose prime function is to be cute and awkward about sexual awakening; a precocious kid brother who always understands more than people think he does about what's "going down"; a good-natured father who is either baffled or angry about his brood, but not much good at problem solving. Mom, of course, is warm and wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...exclusives. Even after their joint bylines finally began appearing six weeks after the June 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters, the two fought vehemently over points in their stories. Yet their dissimilarities effectively checked and balanced each other's performance. Woodward, a registered Republican, was cautious, an awkward writer and shy interviewer. Bernstein was brash, ready to take a chance, a polished writer and cunning interviewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Woodstein Meets Deep Throat | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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