Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations. Dr. Kanner insists that every cause which disturbs the child emotionally should be removed?family quarreling, fear of a drunken father, a whining mother...
...Chicago from all important spring wheat districts last fortnight, giving a fillip to the wheat futures market. Some estimated a loss of 20,000,000 bu., nearly 10% of the spring crop. Last week the Department of Agriculture declared reports were greatly exaggerated but admitted that rust damage was "difficult to measure...
...than one who won a desperate hand-to-hand encounter. Cruelty, vanity, greed, foolhardiness and magnificent courage blended in Crow war psychology, fleetness counted for more than skill or valor, and war was less armed conflict as white men know it than an incredibly dangerous game played according to difficult rules...
Simultaneously 9,000,000 boys & girls of the Hitler Youth were mustered in Summer Solstice Festivals frankly pagan. Mostly these were held on the "sacred German soil" of mountain tops not too difficult of ascent. At some the apple-cheeked, wondering children were invited to cast any sins which they felt they had committed upon Nazi bonfires in which the sins would be consumed...
Spring was also fond of forging Washington bank checks which he sold abroad for $10 each. To his special clients he sometimes made presents of bogus Martin Luthers. Repeatedly arrested for his knavery, Robert Spring died in poverty, left sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of detecting his forgeries from the originals...