Word: gracelessly
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...Morning.) Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1915, he began to write at 18, served during the war aboard an LST in the Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...
...come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face the greatest crisis in the history of civilization. . . . Man must offer himself to become the 'wheat of Christ' in Christianity's ancient principle of dying to self; or else . . . humanity shall know the graceless and terrible tragedy of self-destruction...
...whit more expressive. Malipicro's is the richest of them, matches most nearly with music the grandeur of its verbal text. It might seem even more adequately Virgilian than it does if, orchestral instruments were to be substituted in the accompaniment for the pipe-organ, a graceless and lumbering instrument...
...against five others in Boston Garden, his spectacles firmly secured. For the first two laps Dodds lagged behind; then he spurted. As always, he ran by the clock, not by the competition-the way he set the world indoor mile record (4:06.4) three years ago. He was as graceless as ever; his arms still thrashed like windmills. But at the half-mile his time was 2:00 flat (exactly half of the theoretical four-minute mile) and he was way out front. Could he last? The 13,000 in Boston Garden wondered how much his layoff had hurt...
...reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with a burr under its tail. He circulated a petition for a vote to boot out such a graceless officeholder...