Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throughout the island (he signed the bill with a tailfeather-see cut) but got only a few scattered cheers. Opposition to his methods arose in the Independence wing of the Liberal Party and before a month was out Governor Gore's name became involved in a series of awkward political rows which spilled at regular intervals into the pages of U. S. newspapers. Last week the rows culminated in a plot to bomb the Governor's summer home...
...There are two sides to the question: we cowpunchers envy college men sometimes, and I 'spect they often wish they could ride like we do. Probably some of our boys would look right awkward in evenin' clothes, but if you want to see a real pretty sight you ought to watch a few of these college bred fellahs tryin' to set a cowpony. Back where we come from, the boys don't git much chance for an edication, although some of the fellahs ridin' tonight have graduated from big colleges. You eastern boys don't get the same chance...
...confusion which results from random and misguided decision the concentration plan owes many of its chief difficulties. Students who find that they have made a mistake must undergo the awkward and wasteful process of transference. Others may not discover their error until too late, and remain bitter critics of the field in which an unhappy guess has placed them. It is foolish to argue that freshmen can, if they will, easily get desired information from their advisers or from the official catalogue. The counsel of individual advisers, however ably given, is more than apt to be disregarded; and the catalogue...
John Peter Zenger could set up his stories in type far better than he could write them. But to Governor Cosby the facts of corruption and tyranny revealed were as awkward as Zenger's syntax. He had several numbers of the Journal publicly burned, threw John Peter Zenger into jail on a charge of seditious libel...
...Taxes have grown more heavy; the revenue from rich alumni has diminished. The Greeks must either become so exclusive as to be a negligible clique, or they must, as already in several large middlewestern universities, turn themselves into mere dormitories open to all. The current depression aided by such awkward schisms as that now opening at Dartmouth, will do much to hurry the transition...