Over all these fairly awkward problems Khrushchev was to skate rather lightly ; ;

It was awkward: very awkward.

" The basic complaint was that the vocabulary is too restricted, and, as a result, the text ends up being awkward and more difficult than necessary.

However, this was considered an awkward title and the one-star flag rank was renamed a few months later to its current title of rear admiral ( lower half ), abbreviated by the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard as RDML.

This awkward period was fairly short-lived.

The relationship was sometimes awkward and Orwell and Heppenstall even came to blows, though they remained friends and later worked together on BBC broadcasts.

As a fielder, the Greenberg was awkward and unsure of himself early in his career but he mastered his first-base position through countless hours of practice.

Throughout his life he felt inadequate and socially awkward because of his depression, and was constantly bothered by his physical appearance.

His knowledge of the Italian language and his affability and good humor, however, often helped in mediating between the papal regime and the British government, and he was able on many occasions to offer advice and protection for British visitors who found themselves in awkward scrapes.

There, he was roundly abused and mocked for his awkward fielding, particularly when chasing the ball.

He retired into the world of books and was quiet and awkward in his early years making faux pas.

The result was that at common law, pleadings were stuffed full of awkward legal fictions that had little to do with the actual " real-world " facts of the case.

Loading a cylinder in this manner was a slow and awkward process and generally could not be done in the midst of battle.

During her youth, Beverly was known as quiet, shy, and socially awkward.

The term caught on ; Singer wrote that it was an awkward word but that he could not think of a better one.

Some sources state that tachi were originally a cavalry weapon, primarily used on horseback, where it was able to be drawn efficiently for cutting down enemy foot soldiers, and that on the ground it was still an effective weapon, but somewhat awkward to use.

In an early attempt to incorporate this concept into the character's name, she was called " Samantha Peel ", shortened to the awkward " Mantha Peel ," Eventually the writers began referring to the idea by the verbal shorthand, " M. Appeal ", which gave rise to the character's ultimate name.

This worked, but was enormously awkward.

However, his first major stage success was his role as an awkward suitor of Jessica Tandy in " A Streetcar Named Desire ," which also helped make Brando a star on stage.

Whoever considers the Peruvian empire, where arts and industry flourished under one of the wisest systems of government, which was founded by a stranger, must have very sanguine expectations of the southern continent, from whence it is more than probable Mango Capac, the first Inca, was derived, and must be convinced that the country, from whence Mango Capac introduced the comforts of civilized life, cannot fail of amply rewarding the fortunate people who shall bestow letters instead of quippos ( quipus ), and iron in place of more awkward substitutes.

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

There was little likelihood of any customers walking in at that hour.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

Forty-nine hours after an atomic burst the radiation intensity is only about 1 percent of what it was an hour after the explosion.

This thoughtful gesture was well received by the Juniors as the Class had an entry of 46 Juniors and it took approximately one hour, 45 minutes to judge the Class.

They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.

Now did Welch truly become the man of the hour, and everything that followed in the procedure of Justice was a new triumph for him.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

The temperature was maintained to within about Af for the period of time required to make the measurement ( usually about one hour ).

In all cases there was readily measurable exchange after as little as one hour of illumination.

Rugged outdoor exercise for an hour and a half every day in all kinds of weather was the rule.

Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

The dinner hour there was twelve noon.

She had skipped her lunch hour in the fear that he might call while she was out.

Stanley had filled out the return and because, when he was finished, it was close to the lunch hour, he had politely asked Kitti to join him, never expecting her to accept.

It was nine o'clock in the morning: the hour which, like a spade turning clods of earth, exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain dormant in the quiet night.

Mission Street at this hour was populated by a whole community that Gun could not have seen on his tour of duty -- the neighborhood that had known Urbano Quintana by day.