Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Anthony Bingham Mildmay, 41, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete, full-time amateur jockey and sportsman; of drowning; in Devonshire, England. Renowned for his awkward, wildly jouncing style, "Nitty" Mildmay at one time ranked fourth on the nation's list of jockeys...
...Describing the ruthless German blitz of undefended Belgrade, before Hitler had turned on Russia, he writes: "Out of the nightmare of smoke and fire came the maddened animals released from their shattered cages in the zoological gardens ... A bear, dazed and uncomprehending, shuffled through the inferno with slow and awkward gait down towards the Danube. He was not the only bear who did not understand...
...fish since leaving the White House: he had been hired as lawyer for Howard Hughes's T.W.A., whose struggle against Pan American for world air routes will ultimately be settled by the President. The President paid no heed either to the unfriendly weather or to Clifford's awkward status. He had paper work to do: it involved clubs, hearts, spades & diamonds and an occasional nip of bourbon & branch water. After all, early-rising Harry Truman could sleep in the morning at Key West-and sometimes he did, as late as 8 o'clock...
When Button first donned figure skates at the age of twelve, he was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), fat (162 lbs.), awkward youngster. Eight years later he had gained 10 lbs., 8 in., and his third successive world title. Part of the explanation of his success, Dick Button says, is his Swiss-born coach Gus Lussi, who spotted him eight years ago on the Olympic rink at Lake Placid, N.Y., was impressed with the youngster's determination, if not his skill. Together they spend long hours sketching intricate free-skating routines to supplement the required "school figures" which...
...azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...