Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nigeria have asked for baptism in the church, and other outward signs would indicate to sensitive Mormons that the Lord is preparing the way for a change in the policy that excludes the Negro from the priesthood. Such a change would not, as your article stated, require "a most awkward reinterpretation of Mormon teaching on pre-existence." Christ, for reasons of his own, has excluded the Negro from his priesthood in our day, and a change in policy by revelation would not be surprising...
...crack that the denobilized earl is "a Home without a House." In the Commons facing the Prime Minister's empty seat, Labor's Harold Wilson thundered that postponing Parliament's next session to suit Douglas-Home's convenience was tantamount to treating M.P.s like "awkward or refractory tenants" and constituted a "very serious tampering with the rights and duties of the House." Sir Alec (as he prefers to be known) merely sat out his first showdown with Wilson in 10 Downing Street and refused to budge...
...applying for passports the undergraduates have also opened for the State Department a dignified line of retreat from an awkward position. Other groups are planning to visit Cuba without asking government permission in the near future. Granting valid passports to the Harvard undergraduates would at least demonstrate that students with a legitimate interest in Cuba will be allowed...
...then there was a fight--Knight against himself, Knight fighting to forget a great part of his past. And the fight continued: Ordinarily, once subdued, Knight would have "Tommed" to the cops. That is, he would have suppressed all pride, all hate, all honesty, presented only the laughing, awkward, servile, lewd surface that they wanted to see, and so maybe got an occasional pack of cigarettes and a soft job on the work gangs. That was the game: Fight in vengeance, fight to escape, but if caught, make the best...
...Times," groused Gould in his column. "Mr. Markel's program had interesting intentions but, unfortunately, they were not realized in the slightest. The New York Times has everything to learn about doing news on television. The debut of the Times . . . was superficial and often trite . . . dull . . . disconnected . . . overdone . . . awkward...