Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the execution, many Japanese went to shrines to pray. It was hard for a Westerner to learn what they really felt. Some said the Japanese were not praying for the dead war lords, but for peace in the world. It was no less difficult to learn the final attitudes of the condemned. Tojo left a poem...
...months ago, letters began appearing under George's door at night. The first said: "You will pay 100 gold pounds to the Democratic [Communist] Army." George threw the letter in the fireplace. Soon the second arrived. "If you don't pay you'll have a difficult time." When that was ignored, a third threatened: "If not paid immediately we will have your head -you'll be slaughtered in the marketplace like a steer...
Once in a great while a scientific book is published that sets bells jangling wildly in a dozen different sciences. Such a book is Cybernetics (John Wiley; $3) by Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. It bristles with difficult mathematics; its text is a curious mixture of charm and opacity. But for those who can penetrate it (and thousands are trying), the book is intensely exciting...
...less by accident (everybody else nominated from his district had failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union forces at the battle of Chickamauga. These two new biographies attempt the difficult task of making the life of a military paragon seem interesting...
Although there is no doubt that the Real Estate lobby stopped the Bill, it is difficult to understand the opposition. Considering the gravity of the present housing crisis (estimates of the need run as high as 1.5 million units per year until 1960), it was a mild proposal which had almost complete support throughout the country. It called for Federal subsidies to local or state governments for 500,000 units of public housing per year for the next four years. Only those with incomes less than $2100 a year would be eligible, a group which speculative builders cannot pretend...