Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contacted in Washington yesterday, Keppel said that Pusey had mentioned to him the problem of appointing a new dean before he had left, but that he had no idea who might be appointed to the post. "It's an awkward thing for the former dean to be consulted about." he said...
...Baylor under the backboards, or bulldoze past bigger players for driving lay-ups like West. But he possesses one of the deadliest outside shots in basketball-a delicate, left-handed jump shot that is accurate from anywhere within 25 ft. of the rim. Barnett's preliminary motion looks awkward: he lurches jerkily into the air and kicks both feet backward. But then he flips the ball toward the basket so lightly that the actual act of shooting is an anticlimax. "It's like a knuckle ball," says Laker General Manager Lou Mohs. "Sometimes it looks as though...
Shifting scenes and persons and points of view, Updike's narrative switches in emphasis between the mythical and the actual. Sometimes within one chapter, especially the first, the juxtaposition of the two seems awkward, a forced and unnatural union. Sometimes the counter-poise is executed with great finesse, as in the chapter purporting to be his father's obituary. Updike shows his control of style; he is a master of pastiche in his broad caricature of the small-town newspaper...
...novel. It has practically no plot; it poses no dramatic questions and summons no easy answers. It is laid in Hollywood, although it is not really a Hollywood novel. It has to do with a dozen or so people whose lives touch one another only momentarily and tangentially. Their awkward collidings are sometimes funny but more often sad, because they suffer, as nonswimmers often do, from an inability to gauge the depth of the world about them...
Using new techniques and novel materials, scientists have learned to construct permanent magnets of astonishing power. Into a small hunk of fancy alloy, or a little bit of fragile ceramic, they have built all the pulling power of a hefty electromagnet without its awkward current-carrying coils. But in spite of their handiness. the new magnets have a built-in flaw: their pull is permanent. They lack practical versatility because their fierce attraction for iron-bearing metal cannot be turned off at will, unlike the clumsiest electromagnet, which can be controlled by the flick of a switch...