Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dvorak concluded that the old keyboard needed reforming when he found that high-school typists often misspelled easy words (such as "on," "which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
Your choice of a word to rhyme with "Dies" appears to me a little awkward. May I suggest "Lies...
Fernande Olivier, a model who lived with him then and for the next 14 years, has said he was ". . . small, black, stubby, unquiet, disquieting, with sombre, deep, piercing, strange, almost fixed eyes. Awkward gestures, feminine hands, ill-dressed, ill-cared for. A thick, black, brilliant forelock divided the intelligent protuberant forehead. Half-bohemian, half-workman in his dress; his overlong hair swept the collar of a tired coat...
...Mickey Mouse, not the foolish pigs, not Donald Duck in a snit, not the awkward Goof nor Horace the hopeless horse, not Dopey, no wide-eyed, tender creature of the field or wood was chosen. The choice: a scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs wherein two cadaverous vultures-black, grey, just a tip of vermilion on their cruel beaks-watch for the witch's death through sleet and gloom. Taken from their delicate context, the ominous birds seemed to be looking down on Europe...
...Gentle People a likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead it becomes a piece of hanky-panky, awkward, grotesque, unreal...