Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to these longer stories the Advocate contains a short sketch by William Kelly about life in a tenement and a demonic child. Unfortunately, the characters have hardly any chance to develop and remain somewhat awkward attitude-figures, not really belonging in this piece which, if it were to be acted, would be Method stuff...
...Kenya and Cyprus seemed unlikely to cut much ice. The real issue in the election is the rising standard of living and its continuance. On that score, wavy-haired Hugh Gaitskell, Oxford-trained economist who was Chancellar of the Exchequer in Labor's last government, was in the awkward position of arguing: "We can do it better." Last week, with unemployment dropping and installment buying at an alltime high, Britain, was riding a wave of prosperity so general that even a delegate to the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool echoed Macmillan's airy slogan, said...
...young and in unusually high spirits. They shouted and whistled. They had just completed their time in the gold mines near Johannesburg. Now they were headed home again to the Rhodesias, Nyasaland, and to points beyond. On their wrists were gaudy new watches. They wore purple shirts, cowboy hats, awkward new shoes...
...With awkward surprise, Faubus improvised a segregationist defense against the board's offense. Last week he kept his hands under the table, but they still showed. Little Rock's Raney High School, the privately run effort to educate segregationists' children, announced suddenly that it was broke and would close. Raney may well have run out of money-this was the first such news-but it was busily building new classrooms when it shut down. The effect: turning back 1,235 of the city's most segregation-minded children to Central, Hall and Tech high schools...
Already approved by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, and used by the U.S. armed forces, the mouth-to-mouth revival method is both the simplest and the oldest known to man. It returns to favor after years of reliance on such awkward physical maneuvers as the Shafer prone-pressure system and the Nielsen back-pressure, arm-lift method. Neither of these gets as much air into a victim's lungs as simply breathing into them after clearing the mouth, throat and windpipe of obstructions. For rescuers who cannot stomach direct contact with a person...