Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia Treaty Organization, were ready and willing to send troops into Laos if the U.S. would also commit forces. But Britain and France threw their weight against intervention, and U.S. Army generals counseled that jungly, mountainous Laos, with few roads, only two usable airstrips and no coastline, was an awkward place for the U.S. to fight. Democratic leaders in Congress also opposed intervention. "I don't think the terrain and conditions are right for sending in our troops," said Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...problem of criticism has been discussed here earlier, and now that some of its aspects are illuminated it is possible to consider the much easier problem of information. The answers to Kennedy's apparently awkward dilemma are strikingly clear. Some censoring must always be done, for military and intelligence operations at least thrive only in secrecy. But if it must be done, the government must do it, and the papers can least of all afford to be party to it. For if a paper choose to dummy all dispatches unfavorable to the U.S. on page...
...studious, awkward boy whose glasses were forever fogging up, so that on skis he was a menace to everyone around him. But his talent for sketching was obvious, and at 14 he was admitted to the local Ecole d'Art. There he fell under the spell of a "delightful teacher" named Charles L'Eplattenier, who was the idol of his pupils. L'Eplattenier would take them into the woods to draw, and say: "This is classic beauty. Learn every possible form of classic art-and forget it as quickly as possible in order to create something...
...This Is a Small Town." By 1944 Ho's hui had become too large and awkward to manage so informally. Ho formed Capi tal Investment Co., three years later made his first big killing at the expense of Castle & Cooke, one of Hawaii's conservative "big five" companies. He coolly raised Castle & Cooke's $800,000 bid for the 9,000 acres of a defunct sugar company on Oahu. Four years later, after parceling off only 40% of the land to small farmers, Ho had collected $3,000,000 more than he had paid for the acreage...
...weakness of the ending is presently the play's major flaw. The plot itself concludes quite brilliantly, but the actual transition to a finale is awkward. Menelaus has been losing out to rival Trojan fisheries ever since his wife was involved in a scandal for corrupting the morals of a minor (Paris). The Trojan War offers an easy way out for everyone: Helen gets her lover, Menelaus his market, Achilles his promotion stunt. . . . But Segal, somehow, doesn't get the scene which would logically conclude the show...