Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not physically possess the vessel or have any hope of getting it back soon, regulations require that every ship in commission have a commanding officer of record. The Navy is now looking for someone on whom to bestow the responsibility. The change of command promises to be awkward and piping the new captain aboard will be a problem, but Navy regs will be served...
...Hippolytus. She commands such respect with each word that her accusingly harsh "Wicked!" to her Nurse seems to damn her for eternity. When she cries "Women, stop speaking!", they dare not speak. And when she predicts her fate, Death!", I feared for her very existence. Miss Hart overcome the awkward hand gestures devised by the director by using her face and the slightest turn of her head to convey the deepest emotion...
Finally, he worked his way into an awkward five-minute overview of the world that he had been writing for three days. It positioned him somewhat to the right of his reputation as a liberal policeman but slightly to the left of the conservative attitude maintained by the station's majority stockholder, Gene Autry. Reddin's prime target was the dissidents: "I am fed up with the militant, regardless of color or political persuasion, who is constantly on the attack. The promoters of urban guerrilla warfare are as much the enemy of our society as the soldier...
...evening began with an attractive if unremarkable sonata for violin and piano by Michael Friedman. The violin writing was awkward rather than intelligently varied, suffering from repetitious phrase-length and dynamic graduations. The two instruments were carelessly counterpoised in a discontinuously rhapsodic style...
...emerge with distinctive authority and character. Hughes Rudd, who has a growing reputation as a writer of short stories and published a 1966 collection, My Escape from the CIA and Other Improbable Events, handles the offbeat news. Ponchitta, 26, is obviously learning by doing and has awkward moments, as if suddenly numbed by awareness that the staring camera...