Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that's preposterous!" said the Premier. "A man as able as you-to be idle. You should be in the government. Name a job and it's yours." "Well," said the friend, "I could use a cabinet post." "Oh, I'm afraid that would be difficult," said Ben-Gurion. "You see, all the posts are filled. Shertok is Foreign Minister. Zisling is Minister of Agriculture. Kaplan is Minister of Finance, and so it goes." "All right," said the friend, "so make me Minister of Air." "But there's no such post," exclaimed the Premier. "What would...
...Daily Express' irrepressible "Beachcomber" did what he could to explain the government's new multicolored gasoline program. "Considerable confusion," he wrote, "is being caused by the new green petrol which changes to yellow when mixed with the blue dual-purpose petrol. It is difficult to analyze the mixture on the spot and the position is complicated by the similarity between this petrol in its yellow stage and the red petrol which becomes yellow when mixed with the new grey petrol which must be mixed with brown petrol for pleasure trips of more than one-seventh of a mile...
...keep its doors open, the repertory group must average 500 customers each performance which shouldn't be too difficult with a price range of 60 cents to $2.70--less than that asked for some first-run movies. But at the time of writing, the Copley will be dark after their third production (which is to be Mr. Savory's "George and Margaret") unless business picks...
Play-selection is the most difficult and decisive job before the Messrs. L. and S. They are inclined these days to speak of Margo Jones and of creating a "Boston's Old Vic." They would do well to look at the programs as well as the ideas of those two organizations. They do not, as a general rule, produce plays that merely strike the fancy of the directors unless they also have some recognized artistic value or promise...
Lorna Cooke DeVaron, who now teaches and conducts at the New England Conservatory, led the group from the Glee Club and Choral Society through the difficult but rewarding concert. She deserves high praise, first, for planning a unique program which made no apologics to anyone, and, second, for her graceful and precise direction. She managed to keep her singers where they belonged through most of the rhythmically complicated numbers; particularly effective was Le Jeune's "Revecy venir du printans...