Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly effective in the second play, if not quite up to Eric Port-man, who was his Broadway predecessor. He is not yet so much at home in the first play. He is habitually cool, clean, clipped and polished; and it is clearly an effort for him to be awkward, slovenly, and impetuous...
...Irish colt named Cavan, who had come from nowhere to win the Peter Pan Handicap just the week before. And suddenly it was Cavan who was getting a call. Aboard the favorite, worried Jockey Ismael Valenzuela went to the whip. Tim Tarn wobbled badly. His fine stride suddenly looked awkward; he was in trouble. Snug on the rail, Cavan was reaching out and running away. The liver-colored Irish import breezed under the wire with ears pricked, winning by an easy six lengths...
...Kerr who had just won his second game for the White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati Reds (who took the series, 5-3) and won. And not until a year...
...generals could not be heard in the sleepy (pop. 365) village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 150 miles southeast of Paris. But these were expectant sounds that reverberated in the imagination of Colombey's first citizen, a towering man of 67 with an equine face and the stiff, awkward movements of a French career soldier. And they were sounds that drove him at last to pick up the telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement: "For twelve years France, at grips with problems too harsh for the regime...
...even Fanfani foresees a majority that would allow his party to rule alone. Under new election laws, the Christian Democrats must win almost a million more votes than in 1953 just to hold the 261 seats they now have in the Chamber of Deputies. They are in the awkward position of asking Italians to vote for a party that does not yet know whom it will nominate for Premier. Adone Zoli, the present caretaker Premier, has indicated that he will not take the job again. Fanfani would not want it if he had to form a coalition with more than...