Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boche's reach. With some difficulty the British intelligence spirited Mathilde and De Vomecourt out of France, and La Chatte sat out the rest of the war in a British jail. One British operative said of her: "For Mathilde, resistance and espionage work, which we found to be difficult and hazardous business, were like children's games...
Haya had made his difficult decision just before New Year's. Summoning the few remaining members of his high command, he told them that he had dissolved the party's ruling committees, appointed a triumvirate to rule in his absence...
...even in defeat, the team showed considerable promise. They scored five times; after the sloppy first period, the team met B.C. goal for goal; and goalie Phil Clark made 25 saves, almost all of them difficult. Period 1 2 3 t Boston College 3 2 3 8 Harvard...
...play concerns a young man who escapes from his humdrum life by inventing wonderful tales about himself. This gains for him the prestige he craves, ("I should have been a knight in shining armor"), but he soon finds it difficult to remember when he is lying and when he is not. He is a Walter Mitty of action; a Christy Mahon without honor...
...Aumont plays the liar-adventurer and does it very well. He is wholly creditable as the fatal charmer, an exceedingly difficult job to do without making the character a slippery heel. He injects a good deal of humor into his acting, notably through gestures. Despite this, however, the characters of the wife and daughter are more intriguing, if less whole. Arlene Francis plays the wife with a restraint that suggests that there is more to her than the script will allow. Her part is brief and disturbing; the audience is hardly allowed to make more than a "cocktail-party analysis...