Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front lines, are not at all convinced. Contrasting the claims of both sides, one expert said, "the figures just don't match-one or the other must be totally off." And, despite the joy in New Delhi at its army's great tank victory, the awkward fact was that Pakistan still held Kasur...
...Greco-is the latest entry in the lengthy procession, which is by no means over: his widow Helen and his friend Kimon Friar, who spent four years translating Kazantzakis' Odyssey, are both engaged in writing biographies. Neither can do the man, or the legend, more service than this awkward, graceless but powerful personal testament...
Stay There, Mary. Nowhere are there more problems for the translator than on the islands of the Pacific, whose people have hundreds of languages, ranging from Bugi, the tongue of Celebes, to Yapese, spoken on the tiny U.S. trusteeship island of Yap. Most of them require awkward circumlocutions to express Catholic dogma. In pidgin English for example, God is "Bigfellow master too much who bosses heaven and ground." Even more bothersome is the primitive Enga language of the New Guinea mountains. In trying to translate the "Hail Mary" prayer, explains one missionary, "we found that if a group...
...Brooks is an oily-smooth sinister Tolen in narrow trousers, high-heeled boots and dark glasses, cool, suave, and detestable. Michael Crawford and Donal Donnelly play awkward Colin and buck-toothed Tom with childish glee and exuberance, especially when Colin finds a bed far bigger than Tolen's could possibly...
...four, and as she grew up, Britain's Princess Anne always seemed a typically English young girl, a bit of a tomboy thunking around the riding stables in boots and blue jeans. But the princess is a young lady of 14 now, and she seemed anything but awkward as she waited, pensive and elegantly cowled in a riding cloak, to represent her boarding school, Beneden, in a horse meet at the Moat House Riding School in Kent, where she finished fourth in the dressage test...