Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual is not admitted to a college is often not clear cut and it would be extremely difficult for an administrator of the act to determine whether discrimination was in play in certain cases or not, Shaw said...
Times are still difficult in the Far East and Pacific areas and TLI is accustomed to receiving curt communications like the one from longtime Subscriber C. L. Davar, of Pach-marhi, Central India, which began: "Re: change of address due to Punjab massacre . . ." For many of our subscribers in China, a change of address is now out of the question and communications like the following have been coming to us: "Unfortunately, the Communists are approaching my native city (Wuchang), and an iron curtain will soon be tightly drawn between us and the West. American publications, especially, will be prohibited...
Although, to the Western scientist, the technical side of production may seem easy, it is enormously difficult to the larger part of the world. Throughout Asia, Africa and large parts of Latin America, production and living standards are dangerously lower than in the U.S. and Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
...atomic defilement, the A.E.C.'s John Z. Bowers was skeptical: "It's not impossible, but it's not as simple as it sounds. It's very difficult to get sufficient concentration into any considerable area to make it an effective weapon...
...Gritty Caress. When Williams died in 1945, at 58, he left 26 volumes of poetry, drama, criticism, biography and theology, and seven novels. The most profound, difficult and serious of the novels...