Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alsab's performance was more remarkable. Last February, when Alsab ran his first race, railbirds knew the awkward bay colt had been picked up for $700 at the Saratoga yearling sales the summer before, made him a 70-to-1 shot. He finished last in a field of 14. Since then, under the tutelage of Trainer Sarge Swenke, Alsab has won twelve races in 18 starts. Last week his earnings for the past six months totaled $88,000-probably more than those of his owner, Chicago Attorney Albert Sabath (nephew of Congressman Adolph J. Sabath...
Many of the recordings made so far reveal that the most over-worked word in the Yardling vocabulary is "uh" or "ah", and that the most common sentence construction is a long, awkward pause. Difficulties such as these will be attacked by Professor Packard and his staff after they have been exposed to the light by the voice recordings...
...third day a strange monster flew into the field, rocking and pitching like an aerial rowboat. It was a DC-2, with a DC2 wing strapped to its belly, stub end first, both ends cambered into an awkward streamline by sheets of plywood...
...good company and likes to please." He walks with a destination in mind, is rather sure of himself, asks questions about social requirements ("Is it right?"), feeds himself without spilling, sleeps through the night without bedwetting. He would take full responsibility for the toilet if not for the "awkward posteriority of buttons and buttocks." He holds a crayon in his fingers, names what he draws, copies a circle, matches three color forms. He can run, ride a tricycle, put on his shoes ("not always on the correct foot...
...fighter, whom the world accepts as the millionaire, convinces his manager, who so wrongly had him cremated, that he is really his boy come back in another man's body to win the heavyweight championship is wondrously funny. So is Gleason's awkward attempt to converse with Mr. Jordan, whom he can neither see nor hear. How the fighter finally wins his girl, despite the handicap of having to leave the millionaire's body and take another one before becoming champion, is truly moving...