Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only it were that simple. The people of Hong Kong embrace neither of these extremes. They share pride in the reunification of China, and they harbor some misgivings about their new landlords, but they're ready to give their new system a chance. The awkward title of Special Administrative Region, HKSAR as it will be known, signals just how hard it will be to implement Deng Xiaoping's promise of "one country, two systems" with a "high degree of autonomy." At issue for Chinese on both sides of the new internal border is not only whether Hong Kong's system...
...that Heinrich Harrer, the character he plays in Seven Years in Tibet, who is meant to be a good guy, went on to serve the Third Reich in real life. As for Duets, in which he was supposed to star with Paltrow and be directed by her dad Bruce--awkward as it sounds--his publicist says he will fulfill his obligations. After all, the show must...
Ralston's tailspin came at the end of an unprecedented fortnight at the Pentagon, where senior officers held their breath amid almost daily charges and revelations about career-ending sexual misconduct. No sooner had the Air Force completed its awkward ejection of Lieut. Flinn than allegations of wrongdoing by officials high and low began landing in the Pentagon's backyard. Army Major General John Longhouser, commanding general of Aberdeen Proving Ground, decided last week to retire after a telephone tipster told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved...
...course reporters have worked as intelligence agents. But to do so endangers other reporters and violates journalism's quaint, faint imperative to work for only one paycheck and report even awkward truths. The counterbalancing urgency--biological warfare, for Pete's sake--makes Truell's decision too easy, so that in the last chapters a paunch begins to show on what was a taut and enjoyable job of writing...
...little high when people told me they liked my last column crashed and burned when they asked, with a puzzled look on their face, "Fornicate-with-me red?" I can't blame them. I mean, come on, there are just too many syllables. It's awkward, it's not clean, it doesn't create the right image. People who rename nailpolish colors for their provocative tendencies don't use words like "fornicate" (okay, maybe they do if they're Harvard students, but I didn...