Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, CAB may find it difficult to take away National's franchise. Baker could make a good case that CAB was being unnecessarily harsh. The grounding of the DC-6s had laid up his four newest planes last winter, and, until recently, when its air mail subsidies were upped, National had received the lowest (2½? a mile) rates in the industry. Baker has already enlisted the help of the governor of Florida, and the Miami Chamber of Commerce will fight CAB's proposal at the hearing Dec. 1. Even the strikers were worried at the prospect...
There is a constant illusion that you are watching an extraordinary effort to get cattle across a certain immense expanse of difficult and threatening country, that you are learning a lot about how such a job feels and gets done, and that the perpetually wrangling players are important not so much of themselves, but because the whole success or failure of the attempt depends on these people. The attempt is really the story, and the "background" is really the hero of the piece, and its villain...
...many years, thesis courses were offered by departments administering General Examinations. This was supposed to include tutorial as well. But it was always hard to find brilliant young men who could understand and really teach undergraduates. Because of its high standards, the Economics Department had a difficult time; it took from three to five years to turn out a first-class tutor. Then came the war, and afterward the Department was faced with the task of breaking in a completely new staff. The job was further complicated by the fact that these potential tutors were snapped up by other Universities...
Writing a tour de force for the theater is in many ways a more difficult job than merely writing a play, a task Miss Gordon has twice before proved she could do. It requires both daring and discretion; the knowledge of one's boundaries is essential for its success. But most of all, the playwright needs an icon with more general appeal than Miss Gordon. She is a fine actress, very feminine and tender. She has a funny little was of running up the musical scale when she speaks, letting her voice crack, gently, half...
...doctrine of the Church calls contraception "murder," hence "against God's law." It is, according to this thesis, the duty of the Church to prevent all men, whether Catholics or not, from committing such a crime. This is indeed a difficult argument to answer on its own grounds. In this nation, however, the question of murder is a legal rather than a sectarian matter. It is not, therefore, relevant to argue it on a religious level. And when the Church attempts to force such doctrines on the state, it challenges the fundamental precept of a free society...