Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were no handshakes, no salutes. After an awkward pause, Kinney opened the meeting by saying that they might as well get down to business. At lunch time, the Reds proffered vodka, beer and candy, but none of the U.N. men accepted. They ate their own box lunches. The Eighth Army cameraman took motion pictures; so did the Reds...
...Take It Easy!" Huge and untidy in a rumpled brown suit, Wolfe reminded his companions of a "big, awkward bear." When the beer and liquor flowed, he was anything but bearish, but as the white Ford bounced down steep canyon roads he kept bawling to the driver, "Take it easy!" Crossing Montana towards the end of the trip he saw "suddenly-the tops of the great train lined with clusters of hoboes-a hundred of them-some sprawled out, sitting, others erect, some stretched out on their backs lazily inviting the luminous American weather . . . and the 'bos roll past...
...Professor Ehrsam has done the best job of literary detective work on the forger in print. He is himself sadly handicapped because: 1) the slippery major left few biographical traces, 2) Major Byron was first written as a Ph.D. thesis, and after two rewritings is still more awkward and pedestrian than even most doctoral dissertations. Yet Dr. Ehrsam sometimes proves himself a shrewder hand than his literary betters in the treacherous field of literary hokum...
...most qualified of psychologists and psychiatrists . . . if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward and incomplete summation of the Sermon on the Mount." Undoing the Damage. Along the way, Dr. Fisher learned the happy knack of combining psychiatric skill with commonsense, down-to-earth solutions. His attitude is clear in these Fisherisms: ¶"No man who has lived with cows on the prairie...
...Change, Really. The Administration was finding its wrinkled-nose attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek increasingly awkward. The awkwardness was compounded last week when Major General Courtney Whitney told New York reporters that "all senior officers" in the Far Eastern command supported MacArthur on the use of Chiang's troops. There were still reservations in the Pentagon about the Nationalist army's effectiveness. The Army considered only 40,000 of the 400,000-man army were ready to fight, and then only under competent non-Chinese command. With U.S. training, the Army figured, the Nationalists might be ready...