Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...status quo, cited no less than ten reasons why printing was superior to handwriting for schoolchildren: "It takes less time to teach. It fosters skill in language by allowing easier language expression. It is more legible, and does not become sloppy as the writer becomes senile. It is less awkward for left-handed children. Most job application forms, in fact, say "please print clearly." Claverly maintained that unless some schools had been willing to violate tradition, the tyrannical master would still be holding forth in his red brick schoolhouse...
Also about children but more elementary is Patricia Aren's "Johnny. Written with spare imagination, the piece is little more than commonplace circumstance with obvious dashes of suspense and awkward, often unnatural, dialogue...
...York woman schoolteacher stopped me dead. When I asked her to give a map demonstration, she stood in a most awkward position, and I told her to move over to the other side. "I wouldn't dare to work myself into a corner so far away from the door," she said seriously . . . "First thing a woman teacher learns in our school is never to get too far away from the door...
...finished knotting his tic, Vag saw by his bureau clock that he had only five minutes before roll-call, and the parade ground was a half mile away. Dashing down stairs, he began an awkward jog up the street, puffing under the weight of his overcoat. By the time he reached the Square, a trickle of perspiration was wetting his starched shirt collar, and Vag slowed to recoup his breath...
...those rounds, Marciano appeared awkward, which he is. It may be his short arms that give him this uncoordinated look. Marciano edges into an opponent like an old man wading into ice cold surf. He lunges at his man and he misses often. Once the force of his own swing made him slip to the canvas...