Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Students clutch champagne in one hand and plastic trays in the other, wading through the vaguely embarrassing rituals of freshman dining: long lines, poor food, awkward conversation. With seniors making the transition from dining halls to cocktail parties, sparkling cider to fizzy champagne, breakfast for 1,600 seems a step back...
...Keeping all the first-year students together I think does give an opportunity...with everybody starting at the same level,” Bell says, adding that he has received “consistent feedback as to how awkward and uncomfortable people feel in the first couple of weeks...
...through some rather awkward dates before we became really interested in and comfortable with the other,” she says. And the awkward dates panned out; the two dated for a year and a half and then Mr. Gamble proposed on Jan. 31, 2004 in San Francisco...
...says Ms. Brophy. Mr. Warren became hungry and ate before she arrived. “I had to eat alone, and he just watched me, and asked me questions, and I couldn’t think of anything to say,” she says. The meeting was so awkward that Ms. Brophy hopped on the shuttle to head back to Quincy House and the two didn’t speak for six months...
...WOUND UP FOURTH IN THE INDY 500 AND STILL MADE THE COVER OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. DO YOU FIND ALL THIS ATTENTION A BIT AWKWARD...