Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awkward silence followed. It was broken only when the ex-Emperor protested, "We have served our people in war and peace." Minutes later, he was led out of his marble palace to a tiny blue two-door Volkswagen. The monarch who for years had been chauffeur-driven in a huge maroon Mercedes-Benz limousine could still not believe what was happening to him. "What? In there?" he asked incredulously. "Yes, in there," replied an officer courteously, as he pulled forward the front seat to enable his passenger to squeeze into the rear. As the auto pulled away, Haile Selassie turned...
...movie gets off to an awkward start and improves along with Harry as it goes West. Mazursky is a director (Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love) adept at lancing the excesses and improbabilities of the American culture, but Harry and Tonto is gentler and more bemused than his previous work...
...city of Juneau (pop. 6,050) has been the capital of Alaska since 1900, and its site in the Panhandle of the state made it one of the Alaskan cities closest to the lower 48 states. But the modern era has made Juneau's once enviable position uncomfortably awkward...
Indeed, public access does bring awkward copy and added costs; air time and newspaper space are expensive, and staff must be used to channel the flow of incoming opinions. But the practice will proably expand even further, partly because it is intrinsically just and partly because editors find it the surest way to deflect charges of unfairness. "There was a time when you could bump into an editor in the barber shop and tell him what was on your mind," says Robert Burdock, Plain Dealer managing editor. "But times have changed. Now letters and other kinds of reader expression...
...freshman year, I resented the fact that my sex was inescapably an issue, resented the constant necessity of defending myself and all of womanhood against chauvinist attacks. I resented the strain the unbalanced sex ratio placed upon my social relations, my academics and my general psyche. I resented the awkward merger-non-merger of Harvard and Radcliffe which left all of us hanging, unsure of where we went to school. Radcliffe seemed to be a convenient fiction, designed by Harvard to protect the university from feminine pollution. All Harvard University-- the administration, faculty, alumni and many students--seemed to prefer...