Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Measures to insure this faithfulness were conspicuous. Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky reported that 107,133 party members had been expelled so far this year. That left 2,311,066 members, of whom 22% were "candidate members." It had been a difficult year, Said Slansky: "Foreign and hostile elements sent by the orders of foreign spy groups" had penetrated into the party itself...
...there seems to be no great need for hurry. U.S. manufacturers have given comparatively little attention to the turboprop. Their attitude has been that commercial airliners will jump directly from piston engines to turbojets, but not soon. The problems of the 600 m.p.h. jet airliner are far more difficult than those of the intermediate airplane driven by turboprops...
Fifty-seven years ago, with the first complete .U.S. performance of the St. John's Passion to its credit, Bethlehem's first Choral Union had broken up when it came to tackling the B Minor, which is technically difficult and emotionally demanding throughout its whole three-hour length. Said Founder Wolle: "They looked it over, and their ardor wilted." They disbanded. Five years later, a more determined group came together, rehearsed it for 14 months, then sang...
...likes bow ties and baseball, Professional Stranger Stewart sprinkles his columns liberally with names, reports on the collection plate, the size of the "house," and the number of times that the congregation stands, sits and kneels. (At the Unity Evangelical Lutheran Church, reported Stewart, "it would be difficult ... to try to snooze" because everybody is always bobbing up & down...
...Blackmer, number one singles player for most of the season and recently elected captain of the squad, found the competition much too difficult. He lost 6-2 and 6-4, almost the only low scores of the afternoon...