Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...aims to promote awareness of the abstinent community on campus and to counter what its members see as social pressure to have sex. At 88 members, their Facebook group (not to be confused with the group “I’m Saving Myself for Wild, Passionate, Awkward Honeymoon Sex”) is illustrated by a photograph of a blooming white rose, as chaste and pure as our Puritan founders would have expected their brides...
...about the direction the party is heading on foreign policy generally." With his re-election in November, many old allies now rue abandoning him after he lost the Connecticut Democratic primary to Ned Lamont last August. Both sides concede that bitterness remains. "It's still a little painful and awkward," says the majority whip, Dick Durbin, "but I think the caucus counts him as a friend...
...some dessert. True to their word, the True Love Revolutionaries were not trying to convince anyone to commit to their sexless values. They were simply providing a social venue for people with a similar lifestyle. As it turns out, this sex-free shindig was a lot less awkward than having to make that long trek home from the Yard wearing nothing but a short skirt and stilettos...
...Evelyn Lilly ’07 have known each other since the first day of freshman move-in, when they both took residence in the same entryway in Grays Hall. Scarry writes in an e-mail that their first interaction was likely “one of those awkward first-year ‘Hi, my name is X and I come from Y and my intended concentration is Z’ conversations.”They got to know each other because Lilly planned to go jogging with Scarry’s suitemate at seven each morning...
...insists, “I can tell you, there were actual romantic dates last year,” giving hope to the love-sick hopefuls looking for their own cure this coming Valentine’s Day. The show began rather dryly with two somewhat awkward jocks shyly shaking their derrières for a meager $15. However, the humorous and flamboyant antics of the night’s emcee, Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08, offered some needed comic relief. He even referenced a certain SNL skit to familiarize the audience with the finer points of charity...