Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poland, which are admittedly being put forward by her ally France to offset the entrance of Germany into the League. British public opinion promptly crystallized against the admission of any other state than Germany to the League Council at present; and Sir Austen found himself in a completely awkward position. His position became almost untenable, late in the week, when the British press began to hint that Sir Austen had deliberately bargained with M. Briand at Locarno, the price of French support for the Locarno Pacts being (allegedly) British support for Poland's League Council candidacy...
From then on the Earl of Reading, Viceroy of India, formerly Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-1921), was admittedly in a most awkward position with respect to the Maharaja of Indore. The British forced the execution of three of the Indians who were implicated and the banishment of four more. But what of the alleged instigator of these assassins...
...stage just five minutes after the curtain went up on the second act. It was a nervous, awkward little run, as if she would start at once with the business of the evening. But for the audience the business of the evening had begun. They would not wait to hear her sing. They clapped and clapped until Marion Talley had to give up being Gilda and bow many times, shy, awkward little bows as if she realized the time was not yet ripe for bowing. A few remembered they had come to hear her sing, hissed for quiet. "Mia Padre...
...people that the sovereignty of Jarabub has been transferred from Egypt to Italy by an Italo-Egyptian Commission (TIME, Oct. 12, EGYPT), which made this important disposition of a virtually autonomous people while cruising about luxuriously in the Mediterranean (north of Jarabub) without troubling to land and make the awkward 270-mile trek inland to the oasis itself...
Edward of Wales endured with a jaunty good humor last week the elaborate bandage which holds his bruised arm and side in such a way as to prevent strain upon his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8). Since the bandage would have made it awkward for him to attend the King in full court regalia (see "Parliament Opens") he slipped off to his hunting centre at Melton Mowbray and amused himself among the peasantry on his estates...