Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Beneath the spectacular symbols of mourning--houses draped in black, endless ceremonies as his body was taken by train from Washington to his home of Springfield--was an intense ambiguity: stories circulated regularly about him as a religious doubter, a teller of vulgar stories, an uncouth and awkward man, a usurper of power. But Republicans saw him as a great asset and tried to build a myth that would last--and do the party lasting good. In May 1865, the Republican editor Josiah Holland interviewed the President's law partner William Herndon at length. When the subject of religion came...
...state that President Daniel Ortega Saavedra declined to hold the Nicaraguan flag for your story on the U.N.'s "Global Family Album" [NATION, Nov. 4]. He refused, you say, because "his Sandinistas prefer their own red-and-black banner." Nothing could be further from the truth. President Ortega felt awkward holding a small flag in his hands and preferred to have it in his pocket. Visit our embassy and see how the blue-and-white national flag is prominently displayed. Carlos Tunnermann, Ambassador Embassy of Nicaragua Washington Blacks Criticizing Blacks...
...That awkward incident was only one result of a review of some $150 million in expenditures by the Army's Special Operations Forces and its Delta Force on covert operations between 1981 and 1983. Investigators for both the Army and the Justice Department suspect that a small number of the Delta Force troops may have diverted as much as $500,000 to personal use and that a Special Operations colonel and perhaps three of his colleagues stole at least $60,000, mainly by double-billing the Government for claimed expenses...
...strife at Lehman Brothers is a good deal more persuasive than his tentative efforts to link an ugly power struggle to a supposed national preoccupation with quick results and a runaway trend toward bigness. The narrative is slow in starting, repetitive, and too often dotted with clichés and awkward syntax. It sorely lacks a detailed explanation of Lehman's management structure, and it is overburdened with irrelevant details such as whose dog was vomiting while key negotiations were under way. Still, the book's eventual energy is propulsive, and even at its weakest moments, Auletta's tale is buoyed...
...President Bush met with the President of South Korea. Things got off to an awkward start when President Bush asked, 'Are you from the good Korea or the bad Korea?'" --CONAN O'BRIEN...