Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Clay's appointment-requested by his friend Eisenhower-relieved an awkward situation in Washington. For four months West Pointer Clay, a hard-driving engineering officer and supply expert, had been Jimmy Byrnes's right-hand man in the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. A stern believer in duty and principle, he had backed Byrnes on the so-called "tough war" measures (curfew, brownout, racing ban, etc.), had sternly maintained that the first & last job was to supply the fighting men. The result: some Washington officials thought he was too tough on civilians, wanted him sacked...
Leftist Assemblyman Pierre Villon commented: "We are in a most awkward position. Popular opinion holds many of us responsible for the failures of the Cabinet...
...bill did not go unopposed. The powerful Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, which has an anti-Negro clause in its constitution, fought hard from an extremely awkward position. So did the State Chamber of Commerce and the State Bar Association. They and other opponents wondered how it was possible to legislate against the human feelings that bring discrimination about. Some employers went so far as to prophesy that New York's industries would move out and leave it a ghost state...
Hours go by while the officers He tense in the sun. Once a knot of ten or twelve grey-blue figures bursts out of the thickets just above a Japanese pillbox and goes tumbling down atop it with bayonets ready to clear it. The men seem hurried, fast, awkward. About 3 o'clock we make out a long file of Chinese infantrymen crawling along through the undergrowth, still invisible to the enemy, 300 yards above them. Then they, too, disappear...
...eight seasons, short, bespectacled Gil Dodds has been something of a track oddity. He usually knelt and prayed before each race. On trips, he often carried bread and honey sandwiches in a paper bag. His awkward running style - arms thrashing like windmills - outraged the copybook but set a world's indoor mile record of 4:06.4. Last week, just after his coach predicted that he would soon smash that record by as much as two seconds, Dodds said he was through with track forever - he had received the Call to begin full-time gospel work...