Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed Egypt's Minister of State: "We Arabs are no more a merchandise to be bought and sold in the market of domination and imperialism. Never again will anybody lead Arab...
...facing his most dangerous bull with his finest valor . . . When the play was finished [on its Manhattan opening night] I rushed up to her and fell to my knees at her feet . . . Such an experience in the life of a playwright demands some tribute from him, and this late, awkward confession is my effort to give...
Further deglorification would present awkward problems: whether to remove Stalin's body from its conspicuous place beside Lenin's in Red Square, whether to rename Stalingrad, Stalino, Stalinsk, Stalinogorsk, Stalinir and Stalinabad. It was a measure of the Kremlin's cynical knowledge of Stalin's unpopularity (and their own) that within three years after the death of the man whose wisdom, genius and love they had sycophantly proclaimed from every loudspeaker, they could carelessly traduce his name without fear of rioting in the streets from the masses who were said to love...
Although cinemascope is more hinderance than help and the transfer from stage to screen is still awkward, Carousel remains a touching and beautiful story...
...adverse national press coverage, the Regents have retreated from battle for at least a month, while the matter is analyzed by the University's student-controlled Publications Board, nominal publisher of the Texan. The need to take a stand places faculty members, a minority on the Board, in an awkward position--between sympathy with editor's idealism and fear of the Regents' power...