Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adiza Sanchez-Rahim, 12, knew nothing about violin when Roberta visited her first-grade class six years ago. Adiza is at an awkward age, but when she picks up the violin, she assumes a defiant grace. After all, she has taken lessons at Juilliard, performed in Switzerland and played for Oprah Winfrey. Says Adiza: "I'd be totally different without violin...
...asked on a television show what he would have done with his life, given a choice. After an awkward pause--a rare thing, indeed--he admitted he couldn't think of anything other than boxing. That is all he had ever wanted or wished for. He couldn't imagine anything else. He defended boxing as a sport: "You don't have to be hit in boxing. People don't understand that...
...years after the creation of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (familiarly known as the Annex), with Radcliffe becoming an awkward adolescent, a Crimson editorial reported that the Annex wanted to be more integrated into Harvard...
...store closed because Central Square offered a more attractive 3,000 square feet versus an awkward 10,000 in Harvard Square. Although many employees lost their jobs because of the store's downsizing, those still employed at Mass Army/Navy spoke enthusiastically about the move, according to Rachell Sanel, manager of the Harvard Square store...
Datesite circumvents those awkward moments. Users go to www.datesite.com, and type in the names and e-mail addresses of up to seven crushes. Datesite then sends those seven people an anonymous e-mail urging them to register the names of the people who they like. If two people match up, Datesite notifies the lucky couple. If they don't, no one is the wiser...