Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joke, in early 19th Century England, to be the eldest daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built...
Eliot broke a 7 to 7 tie in the last inning to hand Winthrop its second loss of the season. Jim Rossiter dubbed a scratch hit towards third and Jim Hope singled on an awkward pop fly to give the Elephants men on first and second...
Johnson would find himself in an awkward box. He met the issue head-on at a press conference with a classic head-ducking remark. "I am supporting the President's program," announced Johnson flatly. Then he added warily: "And I'm not quarreling with Congressmen...
...Awkward, Embarrassing." The "London Plot," as the Evening Standard called it, was denounced by many as shady chicanery. Said a London scrubwoman: "I'd never 'ave thought it of 'em." Said Liberal County Councilor Harris: "A scandal. . . deliberately defeating the will of London...
...would no longer find it easy to sell Britons Sir Stafford Cripps's austerity program (see below) as the only true high road to a new land of pie-in-the-sky. In Berlin, where the news reached him, Herbert Morrison put it mildly: "The situation is difficult, awkward and embarrassing...