Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sallow Harry Hopkins sat near by against the wardroom's green-grey bulkhead, eyes narrowed watchfully except when he twitched a smile at a face he knew. From the table's green felt top the President picked a Camel, lit it, stuffed it with his thick awkward fingers into his ivory holder. He hadn't any news, he said-an old friendly opening gambit with the newsmen...
...Which way are they lying, Frank?' Smith said. 'Head here, legs there, body bent round here.' 'Very awkward,' said Smith." Then Ford looked. "There was no blood or gross mutilation. But the bodies had become part of the debris; they had become one constituent of the many constituents of the mound. They had been crushed and pressed into the decomposed raw material of the five houses...
There was many an awkward delay before the U.S.S. West Point finally got away. In San Francisco, 2,570 miles away, debonair Consul General Captain Fritz Wiedemann and Dr. Johannes Borchers, German consul general in New York City, with an entourage of 14 people, had had to cancel their passage on a Japanese liner sailing two days before the President's deadline expired on July 15. The British safe conduct to Japan had arrived too late. Captain Wiedemann talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said...
...suffering mentally, she pestered the Brothers Warner to co-star her with Rough-On-Rats Cagney. Their first get-together since 1934 (Jimmy the Gent) turns the vixenish lady into a foxy hoyden. Mr. Cagney ungently plucks cactus spines from the seat of her pants after she makes an awkward leap from their stalled plane, deliberately smacks her skull with his to drive home a point, slingshots her from the rear while she signals for help with a mirror, roils her finery in the mud of an abandoned mine...
After being kicked around for 46 years, the Seaway strikes an awkward pose as an emergency measure in 1941. But the real question is how it will look...