Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remainder of the game was largely a midfield stalemate. The Crimson, playing with a somewhat revised line and still bothered by injuries, seldom worked in close enough to give Amherst goalie Dan Nesbitt difficult chances...
...Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston, were playing despite injuries which slowed them up and made it difficult for them to carry out their assignments on end runs. These circumstances combined to make an outside game very difficult against a team with Cornell's speed...
Munch seems to take considerable liberties with his classical music. Long dramatic pauses, and abrupt changes in tempo sound a mite strange. In the third movement of the Beethoven, there were moments of uncertainty in the Orchestra, signs of the difficult change of interpretation. But it is nothing serious, and Munch's first concert indicates that Symphony Hall is going to be rocked back on its heels in the weeks to come...
Lamar has a question-mark unit. The heavy line is not yet in shape, and the backfield is difficult to assess. Valpey has used the yearlings for shooting practice on all but these last two days of practice, so even that short time has been halved for Coach Lamar...
...people can't be bothered to make nowadays. In public speeches I have often heard him condemn the present dictatorship in Russia; I have also read an article in which he condemns the Atlantic Pact (International Journal, April '49; see also "Correspondence" in the July number.) He steers difficult course quite honestly and openly. To the right wing he's a commie; to the commies he's a "social fascist," whatever that means. To me, and, I should think, to most people he would be a welcome addition to the American academic world. A. E. Mulloch...