Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for a temporary paycheck during Manhattan's tedious, two-month-old newspaper strike, many a journalist has settled for an unpleasant and unfamiliar job. But of all the compromises forced by the shutdown of nine dailies, none seems more awkward than the gravitation of typewriter-style newsmen to that rival and all-consuming medium...
Prof. Twersky's piece clearly shows, in its incisive and gently ironic style, the influences of Prof. Wolfson himself. Stone's piece is often awkward, and far too serious for what could have been a delightful account of Wolfson's eccentric life and habits. And as all academic biographies do, he includes the inevitable description of the scholar's office, littered high with papers and books, in which the genius can find a 20-year-old magazine within seconds...
...Pagent of Awkward Shadows, by Thomas J. Babe, Jr., '63, the first play by a Harvard undergraduate to be presented at the Loeb, will open there...
...next day's final round at Pebble Beach, Duden got a chance to demonstrate his putter before a nationwide TV audience. Right up until the final hole, his awkward but accurate style kept him in red hot contention. On the 18th hole, he needed a 25-footer for a total of 285 that, as it turned out, would have tied him with Billy Casper for the $5,300 top prize. But then his touch left him. He missed the 25-footer, blew his second putt, finally settled for seventh money of $1,400, behind Casper and five other players...
...chick buzzard, in the author's fondly turned simile, already pecking its way through its shell. Chief evildoer is Randy's guardian, wicked Judge Ball. Under the terms of the will, Randy comes into full control of his money when he marries. The judge would find this awkward because he has stolen most of the money...