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Word: awkwardnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season. A mean wind chilled an audience that failed by 200 to fill the opera house (capacity: 3,500) of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium. The loudspeakers set up to blare the speech to an expected overflow crowd in the square outside were not needed. Willkie's delivery, awkward in 1940, turned out to be only slightly improved. And he had to race through his speech to squeeze it into a 30-minute national hookup, holding up his hand to silence applause. He still had nine paragraphs to go when NBC cut him off to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission to Missouri | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...only good news to appear in the past few weeks is good enough to make up for everything else. Commodore Music Shop has finally brought out its new, enlarged, corrected, up-to-date edition of Delannay's "IIot Discography." The binding still cracks disconcertingly, the arrangement is still awkward, the lists of personnel are still incomplete in a few places, the index is still inaccurate (v. Louis Armstrong), and no-doubt, the experts will find a few still uncorrected mistakes. But if you're at all interested in collecting hot you can't afford to be without "Hot Discography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 7/20/1943 | See Source »

...hostile to rearmament of any kind. Sir Samuel Hoare, though he made some constructive suggestions, never got out on a limb that might lose the Government votes. Churchill was an ardent supporter of the R.A.F. but not always well informed on German air rearmament. When presented with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime Minister, explained that he could do nothing about air, and sent Londonderry to Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was interested only in finance. Sir John Simon thought the air force a nuisance. When asked about the R.A.F., Stanley Baldwin replied with talk about cricket, rowing or books. Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Common Quality | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...defeat, the President had been goaded into an awkward gesture: he proposed a law making all men up to 65 eligible for the draft, so that strikers could be put into uniform. This suggestion shocked the press, from liberal to labor-hating. Congress took a hand: by passing the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill over the President's veto, Congress in effect voted no-confidence in Franklin Roosevelt's unsure handling of the coal problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Won? | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...bass-mouthed man in the neat blue suit was bewildered and nervous. Few men had ever taken a new Washington job under more awkward circumstances. He had become chief of OWI's domestic branch, succeeding Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., Des Moines publisher, just after the House of Representatives had torpedoed the bureau by withholding its funds. The Senate had not yet acted, but there was stormy weather ahead for OWI. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt had a right to be nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oregonicm to OWI | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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