Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marines, he "slipped and slid around" New York City for two years in one job after another. One night, while he was working as a doorman at a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Times Square, his old Marine captain walked by. Their eyes met in awkward recognition. The captain looked him up and down and sneered: "Hackman, you're a sorry son of a bitch...
...treaties, the Chancellor could be returned with an enlarged majority, and push the treaties through. But West Germans are also deeply worried about rising prices and unemployment, and Barzel could win on the issue of economic policy alone. That would leave the Christian Democratic leader in the awkward position of trying to put together his own version of Ostpolitik in the face of open anger on the part of the Soviet Union and displeasure among West Germany's closest allies...
Boos and Raves. A friend introduced her to Fred Ebb, the lyricist for an upcoming musical called Flora, the Red Menace. "I remember this shy, awkward girl coming into the room," says Ebb. "She looked awful, like Raggedy Ann. Everything was just a little torn and a little soiled. She just sat there and stared at me, and I stared back." Liza convinced Ebb that she was his Flora...
...Teutonic guard. She elicited from Haldeman the charge that critics of Nixon's Viet Nam peace plan were "consciously aiding and abetting the enemy"-a remark that made headlines across the nation, drew angry rebuttals from the critics, and forced the White House to do some awkward smoothing over...
...often, however, the majestic alexandrine sonorities of De Gaulle's written French sound awkward and even unintelligible in Terence Kilmartin's translation. The American publishers have also neglected to alter Anglicisms that will baffle many U.S. readers - for example, "council flats" for public housing. Most of all, though, De Gaulle has simply not done himself justice. He writes: "Beyond all the or deals and obstacles, and perhaps be yond the grave, that which is legitimate may one day be legalized, that which is rightful may in the end be proved right." Events have already proved De Gaulle right...