Word: awkwardly
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Anyone still not convinced, just think of Dan Quayle, who, evidently trying to create a palindrome, offered, "The job is just awkward, an awkward job." But perhaps the vice presidency has been best characterized by former V.P. John Garner who famously uttered, "The vice presidency is not worth a pitcher of warm spit...
Around the U.S., flabbergasted defense attorneys and their jailed clients cheered his move. Among prosecutors, however, there was an awkward pause. After all, each DNA test costs as much as $5,000. Then there's the unspoken risk: if dozens of innocents turn up, the D.A. will have indicted his shop...
...nice to your partner all the time." In some dance schools, students also learn telephone, dating and interviewing skills, as well as basic manners. There's even a charm class at M.I.T. that includes ballroom dancing, intended for students whose brilliance may not always compensate for their awkward ways once they're out in the real world...
...Bower brought McPherson international recognition. Its easy to see why. Whereas a play like The Weir loses something from the disconnectedness of its monologues, This Lime Tree Bower is a fugue for three voices, a careful interweaving of three characters and three stories. Each of the leads--Joe, an awkward teenager who's desperate to be cool, Frank, his dutiful older brother, and Ray, a gleefully amoral professor of ethics--has his own events to relate, his own point to make and his own secrets to share. One thinks he may be falling in love with another boy at school...
...says it's a matter of principle. He actually came within a whisker of getting the business last year and believes he was misled into spending more money to maintain a bid he should have won on the merits. So why did Branson lose the lottery? "It's rather awkward for me to say why," says Branson, coyly. "Ring the editor of the Sun and ask him why he thinks I didn't win the lottery...