Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after several years of childless marriage that my husband and I discovered, to our astonishment, that he was sterile. Had it not been for the sympathetic cooperation of a certain obstetrician we would have had to remain childless, and thus ruin our whole future happiness, or else undertake the difficult and uncertain business of adoption-an alternative which is full of psychological problems for both parents and children, and certainly no completely satisfactory substitute for bearing and raising your...
...plus (enabling a pilot to lunch in New York and then fly to Honolulu to breakfast on the same day), I am prepared to give ground (or sky) to the future "zoomies." As a former Navy fighter pilot I had heretofore considered our navigation and power plant problems more difficult than would be our successors' with their simple jet engines and new navigational aids. [But] the pilot of the future will need a chronometer that runs backwards and is inscribed Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow...
...friends and some of the visitors seem to have been a real trial, but so far as my husband and myself and the children are concerned she was certainly a very charitable and generous friend . . . I always got on well with Mrs. Nesbitt. My husband became difficult about his food in the last few years . . . The greatest sacrifice which Mrs. Nesbitt made for him was working with his mother's cook, whom he kept after Mrs. Roosevelt's death in 1941 . . . Some of my time was spent mediating between Mrs. Nesbitt and Mary, the cook...
Most artists had been content to sketch typical New York scenes-Central Park, Times Square-in gay or dramatic lights. Others had hoped to do for Manhattan what Pissarro did for Paris, Guardi for Venice and Whistler for London. Among those who had made the difficult attempt to discover Manhattan's essential qualities and translate them into art, at least four had partially succeeded...
Naked Heroes. A pupil of his great-uncle Francois Boucher, David was brought up to be a boudoir painter, trained in the sentimental and erotic elegance that the court demanded. But young David was a difficult student; he simply could not learn to paint charmingly. At 27 he took off for Rome, looked at the statues and pictures, and came back a fighting antiquary. Brutus and the Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudit...