Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been supposed that sailors have a wife in every port, but I am sorry to see TIME support this fiction by placing my salty uncle, Paul Hammond, in the difficult position of a bigamist (TIME, Aug. 28, photo "Professor and Mrs. Morison," accompanying article "After Columbus"). Actually, the photograph is of Skipper Hammond and Mrs. Morison...
...unwittingly placing Reader Johnson's salty uncle in such a difficult position, TIME apologizes to all hands, fines the news service which supplied a wrongly captioned photograph one tot of grog, herewith prints the picture (and the real Professor Morison) in full. Of TIME'S many boatmen, no small number have made it clear that Capitana is indeed a barkentine and not a ketch...
Life is sufficiently difficult, what with every shoe, grocery, and room clerk calling us everything from Tukberg to Tweeksberry without TIME'S adding to the confusion...
...Examples: "Soviet Russia is the chief obstacle to Nazi ambition." A German-Russian alliance "will prove difficult of achievement until after the death of Stalin...
...Moscow and Rome "responsibility censorship" continued; i. e., correspondents knew that if they sent news that was dangerous or too antagonistic they would be expelled. Chances were that it would become increasingly difficult to report developments impartially...