Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical side, a famed forerunner of modern design was the ironclad Maine (6,682 tons), ugly and awkward but formidably armed for her day (four 10-and six 6-inchers), but no match for the mine that took her in Havana harbor. U.S.S. North Dakota was another step to today, with 20,000-ton displacement, ten 12-inchers, fourteen 5-inchers...
...Army decided to follow the German example, and send its own professional correspondents to the fighting fronts. Having thus decided, the Army made an awkward discovery...
Blue-Blooded Liberal. Gil Winant is a blueblood, son of an aristocratic New Yorker who made a fortune in real estate. As a boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he was awkward, scraggly, uncouth; he concentrated on American history, barely crawled by in his other subjects. As a Princeton undergraduate, he left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
...gunner were ordered to make a reconnaissance sortie over Arras. They were one of 50 reconnaissance crews in all France. Of the 23 which comprised their group, 17 had already perished. Their chances of survival even on a good day were one in three, and this sortie was an "awkward"' one. The information, even if they brought it back, would be useless, even if it were to reach the General Staff, which it would not. It was "as if you dashed glassfuls of water into a forest fire." And yet "it's no one's fault. . . . Everybody...
...looking for work of other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm of finely detailed craftsmanship...