Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspaper reporters came close enough by demanding to know whether the inquiry was a legitimate campaign issue. Many of the candidates danced around this hand grenade, waiting for it to become yesterday's news. "The debate," said Richard Gephardt's campaign manager William Carrick, "is going through an awkward phase, a cartoon phase." But even if the sex angle goes stale, candidates will have to spend considerable time on broader ethical issues...
...forced out last month. Dortch was found guilty of failing to notify church leaders of Bakker's misconduct and of subsequent deceit (the two men arranged hush-money payments of $265,000 to Hahn and her advisers). Dortch's downfall after 33 years in the ministry was especially awkward. He had been the Illinois superintendent for the denomination and had served 14 years on the very body that ordered his defrocking. Bakker and Dortch, who had no immediate response to the action, have 30 days to file an appeal to the Executive Presbytery, although that is considered unlikely...
Mammoth billboard images of the kind that frequently adorn Manhattan's Times Square have been a frustrating market niche for the $1.3 billion outdoor advertising industry. The huge, hand-painted icons often take a month to produce, sometimes depict faces inaccurately, and can be awkward to move. But now two California manufacturers have shown that turning out big pictures can be child's play. Los Angeles-based Metromedia Technologies uses computers to convert photos or other artwork into billboards up to 17 ft. by 54 ft. within just six hours. Another company, Torrance-based Computer Image Systems, is creating...
...even survived his spectacular flameout after Watergate to become an elder statesman of the Republican Party. But his role in history remains enigmatic. An unlikelier politician would be hard to concoct: reserved, secretive, glowering, as awkward at backslapping and glad-handing as an android at a stag party. Yet he became the most durable public figure in postwar American life, five times a candidate for national office and four times a winner. How could this have happened? The question can be interpreted as friendly or hostile; anyone interested in the recent past must ask it and look for answers...
...words seep out from the back of their throats as if they were trying to say "ah" for the doctor and assume a Californian accent at the same time. They also often allow their mouths to droop open during pauses in conversation, and then stare at you with an awkward yet genuine friendliness reminiscent of the humbly thankful look you give to someone who praises your haircut...