Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME...
...Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME...
With Confucian calm, the elderly (65) ambassador entered the high-ceilinged office of youthful (39) Minister of State Hector McNeil. The Briton fingered his necktie in awkward embarrassment, choked up as he began to read a formal note announcing Britain's recognition of Communist China (see below) and the dismissal of the Nationalist Chinese envoy. Cheng interrupted with a gentle gesture of gnarled ivory-hued hands. "We can talk of business later," he said. "Let us first talk as friends...
Armed with years of reading and research, Williams determined to refight the war from the opening shots at Fort Sumter. The result is no amateur's awkward foray. The first two volumes of Lincoln Finds a General (two more to come) already look like the soundest military history of the North yet written...