Word: awkwardly
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...Latin. He marvels at fingerprinting, then just coming into use in Paris, and at "instantaneous" communication by pneumatic tubes. For a time he suspects that one of the villains is his friend John Hay, later to be a U.S. Secretary of State. A gendarme confronts him at an awkward moment: "Oh, dear, Monsieur Adams. This doesn't look good ... Alone with a dead body. Again. Your appetite for mayhem appears insatiable ... It will go more easily with you if you just tell the truth." The suspense here is not unbearable since we know that the real Adams was not guillotined...
...York Times is planning to go on-line this fall at http://www.nytimes.com and currently puts up the eight-page Times Fax at http://www.nytimesfax.com, albeit in Adobe Acrobat, a format somewhat awkward to download and read...
...drawn, they are expected to announce a breakthrough in defining the complex government structure that will rule over it, if and when peace is signed. Consensus has also been reached on constitutional arrangements for the Serb and Muslim-Croat "entities" inside Bosnia. "It's an awkward structure," concedes a State Department official. "But it's a hell of an improvement over killing people...
...performers. They weren't the ones with the highest IQs; they were the ones whose E-mail got answered. Those workers who were good collaborators and networkers and popular with colleagues were more likely to get the cooperation they needed to reach their goals than the socially awkward, lone-wolf geniuses...
Hard times: first 14-year-old MACAULAY CULKIN hit "that awkward age"; now his parents are splitting up. Mother Patricia Brentrup has been granted temporary custody of six of the children she had with Kit Culkin. Brentrup claims Culkin is jeopardizing the children's careers by withholding his consent for them to work in movies...