Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using these powers, Howe handed out more than $100 million in government aid for business expansion, and transformed Canadian industry from an awkward war-born phenomenon into a peacetime economy as well-balanced as any in the world. Howe also had a strong hand in forming Canada's postwar fiscal policy, conservative to the core. Ignoring the example of the U.S., Canada refused to impose direct controls on prices and wages, putting its faith instead in strong credit controls and increased production. The policy worked. At the start of the Korean war, Canada's cost of living rose...
...pictures, just to see what the city would "look like to a fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy...
Despite these considerable handicaps, Radcliffe's Idler players are presenting an entertaining production of "A Doll's House." They render Ibsen's sometimes awkward lines as smoothly as possible and manage to enliven a largely humorless play...
Aaron Copland is a much better composer than conductor. On the podium he seemed awkward and uncertain, and I don't know how the orchestra was ever able to follow his obscure beat. But his music, fresh and invigorating, gave ample proof that he is one of the five or six really significant composers in the United States today. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Copland concerns himself with melodies per se; his compositions usually contain several good tunes, but not much depth of feeling...
...stilts. But no one in the crowd, least of all Louis, saw what was coming. And no 'one in the crowd, even the most rabid of Rocky's fans, really wanted to see it. In the eighth, a solid left hook, thrown wildly from Marciano's awkward, hunched crouch, caught Joe flush on the jaw and sent him tumbling to the canvas. Louis had been knocked down in other bouts, and each time he had come up fighting. He did this time too, but there was no sting left to his blows, nothing to make...