Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sickle of Communism on their wings. They laid big eggs of Death among the soldiers of Empire, swooped off, wheeled again and strafed the ground forces with machine guns. Fighting continued all week, with the Buddhist temple still the main objective. Dispatches reached the outer world by two fantastically difficult routes, via Urga and Moscow and via Hsinking and Tokyo. At latest reports the Soviet-Mongol forces outnumbered the Japanese-Manchus at least two-to-one and Japanese war planes were about to rush belatedly to the rescue clear across the mountains from Tsitsihar, the war base established by Japanese...
...impounded money, which remained in custody of various Federal Courts. When AAA had been declared invalid, and a rehearing of the case denied, the Federal Judges released the impounded taxes, most of which the processors have already recovered. The $1,000,000,000 will be much more difficult to get back. In 1935 the original AAAct was amended to provide that, even if the law were declared unconstitutional, the processor could not recover unless he could convince
Yard police explained that the gates have just been left open because "the snow makes it difficult to close them...
...muddy morass of shifting sands and marshy lagoons offered the "difficult foundations" of the Havana Country Club. It was first sketched on the back of a dog-eared envelope and capital was subscribed by such Havana bigwigs of those days as Lawyer Norman Hezekiah Davis, now President Roosevelt's famed Ambassador-at-Large. As go-getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves...
...Graustein is not a paper man but a lawyer, a utilitarian and a financier. Voluble, aggressive, brilliant, he finds it difficult to think in any except expansive terms. Son of a German-born Boston milk dealer, he romped through Harvard in two years, graduating magna cum laude. After Harvard Law School, he entered the Boston firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, learned about paper while reorganizing a paper company, was pushed into International by the Phipps interests. President Graustein's prime paper policy was volume at almost any cost. International now dominates the kraft industry, which mushroomed...