Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that permanent invalid of the American baking industry, the bun, they are, even so, mechanically consumed in sickening quantities every day. They cost anywhere from 15 cents to 40 cents. And every single one of them is accompanied, like a whale with its pilot fish, by a small, awkward slice of cucumber pickle. All very depressing...
...matured into a diminutive nymphet (5 ft. 2 in., 96 Ibs.) and got through the awkward years without the usual career intermission. With two other young aspiring actors, she formed a kind of small-scaled study group of her own; the three acted plays in the living room, roamed out into the town to test their skills, improvising scenes on park benches and in crowded bars, making speeches before street loungers to see how well they could handle audiences. Her first big-girl role (at 16) was opposite James Dean in Rebel; it won her an Oscar nomination...
...play was talky, structurally awkward, and failed to reach a natural climax. It was overloaded with subplots, and it did not capitalize on its most dramatic situations. It suffered from cloudy characterization. But it was brilliant...
...some executives have misgivings about tableless board rooms and deskless offices. Says Frank Stanton. president of the Columbia Broadcasting System: "I would feel a little awkward with just a coffee table. I just can't be that exposed...
...fourth U.S. plane skyjacked since May, and in this case the skywayman was plainly a mental case. Albert Charles Cadon, 27, was a Parisian who settled in Manhattan in 1957, tried his awkward hand at abstract painting, wound up as a busboy. Late last year he spent time in a psychiatric ward; later, Cadon raided the Chemstrand Corp.'s Empire State Building offices and smeared display posters with black paint in protest against a new fiber that, he said, had been named "Cadon'' without his permission. Fortnight ago, Cadon left his German-born wife in New York...