Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well; whenever he comes on screen thereafter, there's an initial shock of recognition and an initial laughter. But we remeet him as he talks to a different sergeant, one who is kind, and placating who is, in fact, helping Hickman lace his boots. Hickman has let Basic, his awkward training errors, and the razzing of his bunkmates get to him. He has tried to commit suicide...
...poem in the Advocate collection stands out as a bright example of intention happily wedded to execution: Jean Boudin's "Checkers." On one level it is a word-game played in nonsense verse with a vivaciously comic sense for awkward syntax and incongruous internal rhyme. Boudin writes for the ear at least as well as she writes for the eye. And her sense of nonsense saves the radical political themes of the poem from didacticism. An attempt at high seriousness would blunt the sting of the poem's political barbs, but irreverence sharpens them with a fitting context. A poet...
...goods merchant, Hopper was born in Nyack, N.Y., in 1882. He read prodigiously in his father's library: English, French and Russian novelists, philosophers from Montaigne to Emerson. He was a loner almost from the start, perhaps because by the age of twelve he had sprouted to an awkward 6 ft. (full-grown, he was 6 ft. 4 in.). When he was 18, he enrolled in the New York School of Art, studying under Robert Henri, then a leader of the Ashcan School...
...relies on Arab oil for 40% of its requirements, scrupulously respects the boycott. Two years ago, the Nissan Motor Co., which was then selling about 2,000 vehicles a year in Arab countries, told an Israeli dealer that he could not import any of its cars. "Please understand our awkward situation with your cordial heart," Nissan wrote the dealer. The Japanese still refuse landing rights in Tokyo to El Al. In retaliation, 7,000 U.S. travelers canceled reservations on Japan Air Lines to the 1970 Osaka world's fair...
...contrast, the follow-up flight of Soyuz 11 was trouble-free from the start. Using improved docking techniques, it easily attached itself to the awkward-looking, tubular-shaped space lab. Upon entering Salyut's trailer-sized interior, Dobrovolsky cheerfully announced: "This place is tremendous. There seems to be no end to it." Through most of the mission, the cosmonauts remained in remarkably good humor. While a TV camera recorded their activities, they performed exercises, engaged in numerous scientific experiments and even cast the first votes from space-affirming their support of the Communist Party's policies...