Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia moved in with troops I believe it would be difficult for me to oppose that kind of war. However, I am convinced that Russia has too much sense...
...Romance Languages Department, however, is significantly different from other language departments. The Department is in charge of no less than four languages. A survey on the order of English 1, therefore, would be quite difficult to whip up since it would have to reject more material than other survey courses and be a good deal more general. That is partly why the Romance Languages and Literatures Department is leery of handling such a survey. The course would have a distinctly limited value for the concentrator...
General Eisenhower has a new job. On February 11 President Truman borrowed him from Columbia, and brought him back to Washington for what may turn out to be one of the General's most difficult assignments. The President designated Eisenhower to act as temporary head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as special adviser to Defense Secretary Forrestal; the general's task is to try and clear up the long-running fight between the armed services which has so severely cut the efficiency of our national security program...
...General Eisenhower can get the services working together without this difficult and time-consuming reconstuction, he will have solved a problem that is funneling the country's resources into a constant and needless waste...
Another problem will be reslanting the corrective course so that it, too, will teach writing for specific purposes, leaving straight composition to English C. There is going to be the difficult job of finding enough instructors who can teach the expended advanced composition courses. There is still the old gripe of regrouping the basic course in ability-selected sections. All these problems will have to be tackled and solved. The general reconstruction of English A is still a long step; if carried through intelligently it can turn a terribly awkward course into a program that should...