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Word: awkwardnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving the course up to the sophomore year also puts it in an awkward and illogical position in the program. A survey course fits naturally in one of two places, either in the freshman year as an introduction, or in the senior year as a binder. For sophomores, a survey course makes little sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Damaged Tutorial | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

Kiki, as mascots have an awkward habit of doing, lived on. After World War II she reappeared in her old haunts, a plump woman, rather heavily made up. Last year she began to show signs of liver cirrhosis, and she spent a couple of months in the hospital. Last week, at 51, she was dead. There was no room for her in Montparnasse Cemetery, so her friends buried her at Thiais, out beyond the Porte d'ltalie. Foujita was there, his fringed hair now white. One by one the old Bohemians dropped their bouquets on the coffin, and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Violets for Kiki | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Democrats and the State Department professionals, the resolution carefully avoided condemnation of the Yalta and Potsdam agreements. But Republicans, including Ike, had condemned the treaties roundly all through the campaign. Now the resolution was shelved, perhaps for good, because Republicans who wanted to toughen it were placed in the awkward position of fighting the President while the Democrats supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Dry-Creek Time | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...never before been subjected to an FBI investigation. When the report came in, Dulles evaluated the implications against Bohlen as unproved and unsupported-and he convinced the Foreign Relations Committee that he was right. But McCarthy & Co. could take advantage of the fact that Dulles was in the awkward position of justifying an appointment made before he had the FBI check, and that his department's security man was not beside Dulles in the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Bohlen Case | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...Cyril W. Nye, 61, was not voicing concern about the little ones tossing in limbo; it was their tossing in his arms that bothered him. Said he: "Please, please try to bring your children along before they are two months old. Babies of six months and over are uncommonly awkward to handle. When the baptismal water is poured over their heads, they react strongly and try to get away . . . That can be quite tricky with a healthy, struggling infant. I don't mind the noise, but it's a bit too much when they try to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting at the Font | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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