Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusing even to try to kill a bull who looks at him in a way he does not like; the late great Joselito who killed 1,557 bulls, was gored badly three times, killed the fourth time; the almost crippled Belmonte (retired), "greatest living bullfighter"; Villalta, brave but "awkward looking as a praying mantis" with a difficult bull; Ortega, at present one of Spain's most acclaimed matadors, whom Hemingway characterizes as "ignorant, vulgar and low"; Lalanda. "unquestionably the master of all present fighters"; Freg, the Mexican veteran who has 72 wounds, has been given extreme unction five different times...
...were anxious to learn how to do the crawl. Most Japanese athletes, other than swimmers, in the current Olympic Games have likewise been concerned with learning how to compete rather than winning prizes. Japanese skiers in the Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake Placid school children by turning awkward somersaults over jumps and falling down even on the level. Except for Broad-jumper Chuhei Nambu who holds the world's record, Nipponese track athletes did not excel last fortnight except in courage. Schoichiro Takenaka finished the 5,000-metre two laps behind the field in a daze...
Like many persons who possess abundant nervous energy, he comports himself, away from tennis courts, in a manner almost painfully lethargic. Vines ambles when he walks. His frame, more knobby at the knees and elbows than an athlete's should be, presents an awkward aspect. Languid even in responding to a new environment. Vines maintained his habit of retiring and rising early last week. In Paris, he investigated neither the Louvre nor the Folies Bergere. In London, he ordered new and wider trousers which fit him better than his old ones...
Slavering, grunting, squealing, huge paunchy cornfed bellies swaying to their awkward steps, thousands of big pigs went to market last week. In Omaha, in Kansas City and in Chicago's noisome Packingtown they arrived by carload lots. Penned up in long alleys they rooted, grunted and jostled one another with muddy, clammy snouts. In between them marched the buyers for the great meat companies, poking their porky flanks and paunches with sticks and crying the cry of hogs, "Tsaa, tsaa, tsaa." With swift gestures and few words the buyers made their purchases. Four times a day the results were broadcast...
...York's Polo Grounds one night last week, Aida the slave girl stood near the home plate, sang of her love and terror, was at last pent up to die with her soldier lover. There were no animals at all, the supers were ludicrously spindly-shanked and awkward, the scenery an arrangement of posts and draperies which seemed often to confuse the performers. Nonetheless many a Manhattanite had journeyed tediously to 155th Street to see the second U. S. operatic performance of lissome, dark Helen Gahagan, Belasco actress (Tonight or Never) turned singer. New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-raised, Actress...