Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose jurisdiction included Billie Sol Estes' cotton dealings-was murder. Said the Senator sternly: "I don't think it takes many deductions to reach the irrevocable conclusion that no man committed suicide with a weapon like this. He would have had to place the gun in an awkward position, pull the trigger and then work the bolt, while wounded, four more times...
...from the center of the stage, the piano blocked him from Janis' view, forcing the pianist to crane sideways. To make matters worse, most of the time Benny neglected to conduct; Janis was kept busy nodding cues to the band. The performance was studded with sour notes and awkward pauses...
...fight to regain control of the TWA shares (78.29; of the line's outstanding stock) that edgy creditors forced him to put into a voting trust two years ago. If he can pull hapless Northeast out of its difficulties (which will not be easy), it will be increasingly awkward for the bankers and the CAB to hold to the line that Hughes is too erratic and inefficient a manager to be permitted...
...second type waxes in athletic ability and interest while he is here, as did the sparky fullback from Cherokee, Iowa, Jim Nelson. Called "crazylegs" because he ran in what appeared to be an awkward manner in his freshman and sophomore years, Nelson last fall was billed as the man who went "from stand-in to standout." At the end of the season he won the New England senior football award...
...mentioned several times, and Youngblood Hawke, the fictional author, comes to fame 15 years after Wolfe's death. But the list of similarities testifies to the attentiveness of Wouk's note taking: both Wolfe and Hawke had huge physiques; Southern backgrounds; cantankerous mothers obsessed with real estate; awkward, adoring older sisters; affairs with sophisticated New York matrons 15 years older than themselves; compulsions to set down every acre of the U.S. on paper; prose styles that needed strong-arm editing; early fame and early deaths from brain disease...