Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the Russians captured Gary Powers and his wrecked U-2 plane in 1960, skillful Soviet dribbling of information led the U.S. from clumsy denial of the aerial surveillance to an awkward admission by President Eisenhower. As a result, Ike's summit with Khrushchev fell through; Moscow parlayed the incident into a propaganda spectacular by putting Powers on public trial. The U.S. called off further U-2 flights over Russia as a concession to disapproving opinions, although all major powers would use the same kind of airborne espionage if they had the means, and could get away with...
Dean Monro yesterday hailed the proposal as "the simplest and best digest of everyone's recommendations." He said it was "nothing very radical" and expects that "awkward points" can be worked out. Dean Watson, similarly, said he is "delighted" and expects it to work...
Saturday morning I would have told you to dash over to the Loeb Experimental Theatre, at least half an hour before show time, to be sure of a seat. But now I can only tell you what you missed. Mime I was an entertaining, if sometimes awkward, hour of pantomime, certainly not exceptional in the context of traditional mime, but a remarkably brave performance by a Harvard junior...
...LEGSON KAYIRA!" As the loudspeaker boomed his name, the African village boy, awkward in his new shoes and suit, stopped short and stared wonderingly into the crowd at New York's International Airport. "CALLING MR. LEGSON KAYIRA!" the disembodied voice repeated. The boy took a deep breath and, as other travelers gaped in astonishment, he bellowed at the top of his voice, "i AM HERE...
...today's standards, Mark I was as slow and awkward as a manual adding machine. In two years it was shoved aside by the University of Pennsylvania's celebrated ENIAC, which, as the first electronic computer, used 18,000 vacuum tubes as circuits and quick-acting switches. Though they were a big advance, vacuum tubes proved too expensive, too unreliable and too bulky: ENIAC weighed 30 tons and took up 1,500 sq. ft. of floor space. Until 1954, when Remington Rand (now Sperry Rand) first sold its UNIVAC to industry, the few computers in the U.S. were...