Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was an awkward formality to Kirk's unity meeting. A little nervous laughter broke out when Jesse Jackson asked, "Don't any of you want to be my Vice President? No heavy lifting, and I'll let you go to all the good ( funerals." But behind his smile was a clear understanding that Kirk's ploy was really a way to neutralize Jackson's clout...
...Israel publications such as the New Republic, several Jewish organizations, 30 U.S. Senators sympathetic to Israel and last week President Reagan have expressed their impatience with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's hardheadedness. People seem to be catching on that to dance on eggshells about Israel is not only weirdly awkward, it opposes all that one understands both Jewishness and Americanness...
...middle of the Currier House Fishbowl and places the audience at other tables in a U-shape around them. As a result, the audience sees half the actors from behind for the first act. Once, the actors switch seats so everyone can see their faces. Appreciated, but awkward...
...wrongdoing occurred in this youth hockey game. Just a lot of awkward Seven-year-old kids, sprawling all over the place and not seeming to miss their Saturday-morning cartoons...
...exercise field, the group looked like an awkward, overage boot- camp platoon, learning how to bow, count off rapidly and report in a loud voice. "Shouting," says Fujimori, "makes every person know his own force or weakness." Spare time was spent in pairs or small groups shouting recitations and learning the lessons, including the salesman's ten commandments. Among them: "No shilly-shallying. Always be punctual"; "Completing an action without reporting it is worse than not doing it"; and "Promise yourself you will achieve the best results in the shortest time...