Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lipped siren with a low-cut dress and an incredibly pneumatic bust. U.S. intellectuals, who had once ranged from the Paris Left Bank to Communism's left wing, had come home to roost. It was a little saddening to the more daring spirits, but in 1948 it was difficult to want to be anything but an American...
...that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told him, and he had no right to be away during regular working hours. Some doctors were unpleasant. One, called five miles on a case, berated...
...difficult now for parents to hand on to children clear-cut standards of what is right and what is wrong in the relations of the sexes . . . The air is blue with insistent voices . . . analyzing behavior as 'normal' which in the past we were accustomed to associate with the gutter...
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...Professor Howe drew the greatest applause of the evening with his defense of President Truman and the Democratic party. Admitting that it was difficult to become enthusiastic about the President, he rosted his case on Truman's role as the inheritor of the New Deal tradition. Howe discarded Republicanism in the fear that the economic basis of society will shift back to corporation interests, while he dismissed the Progressives on the grounds that they have "lost touch with the Liberal cause by their foreign stand...