Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago in Vermont, Industrialist Ralph E. Flanders lost a campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination. His friends jokingly tell him that it was because of a widely circulated photograph of himself. It showed him holding a pig in an awkward fashion. Vermont farmers, say Flanders' friends, laughed and voted for Senator George Aiken...
There are some sheep among the goats in the minor parts, but they are few in number. Somehow, it is the awkward, yearning, gentle people who inhabit all of Saroyan's plays that the young hopefuls of summer stock are most capable of getting across to an audience...
...organizations have been as awkward and unattractive as the Republican Party in recent years. ... Its leadership has been vague. Its salesmanship has been negative. ... A dreary record . . . under the heavy crust of big-name capitalists and old-line politicians...
...been seeking success since her first short story was published in a Florida newspaper when she was an awkward nine-year-old. She went on to study law, worked as a newspaper reporter, wrote a sports column for the Tampa Tribune. In 1938 she moved to New York, nibbled at radio crumbs, wrote pulp fiction. She hit the big time last year when she sold her program idea to Mutual...
...talk was the chitchat of old grads-who was doing what, and where, and to whom; what had happened to so-and-so; the off-color jokes, the old, corny gags. The commonest initial emotion was embarrassment-the desperate stab at a classmate's name, the awkward groping for something to talk about...