Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...came to college believing that I really wanted to devote myself to this newspaper, to the grand enterprise of student journalism. My first few times in the building were somewhat awkward, but certainly no more so than any other freshman fall experience...
...student. Moving past tour groups ogling outside of Widener, I sometimes can’t help but step out of my student role for just a minute and think about things from the outside. It’s tough to remember, in the thick of classes and activities and awkward social encounters, the esteem with which so many people hold our school...
...Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.’A TIGER IN A CAGE’In the fall of 1952, a “sophisticated East Coast girl” arrived at Radcliffe. “I wasn’t terribly awkward,” says Whitman, who was used to eating dinner with Einstein and Edward Teller. “Social situations didn’t faze me a whole lot.”Roommate Paula B. Cronin ’56 soon gleaned that Whitman, who would go on to serve...
...from "convergence" or a two-state solution, such a collapse would force Israel to resume direct administrative control over the West Bank and Gaza. So, the U.S. and Israel are forced into an awkward back-pedaling posture, in which they're seeking ways of temporarily relieving some of the symptoms of the Palestinian social collapse without appearing to reduce the pressure on Hamas...
...magazine editors) began to nonchalantly position themselves for an audience with Gore, forming an consciously indifferent crowd that engaged in minimalist small talk while waiting for the moment to edge in. Everyone was at once eager to be noticed and trying not to be too obvious, a gaggle of awkward preeners whose self-presentation wouldn't get past the first walk-off on "America's Next Top Model...