Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real test of how devaluation will serve Mexico is whether the government is now able to take the next difficult steps that are required, i.e., balance its budget, tighten credit, soak up idle money by higher taxes. If the government can do this, a new and sounder peso-at perhaps six or seven to the dollar-may be established. If so, Mexico may be one of the first Latin American nations to wring the water out of its economy and get down to sound living...
...early cantata, The King of theStars (1911), is so difficult it has never been performed...
...tragedy is not Shanghai's soaring inflation, nor the tide of battles lost & won. It is the horde of refugees streaming southward, 30,000,000 starving, diseased, despairing people. They stand for the breakdown of Chinese society under Communist hammer blows which caught China in the difficult and disturbing transition toward Western progress. The Communist attack has not only halted such progress; it is sweeping away the village, the family-all the ancient pillars of Chinese society which endured despite primitive economics and decadent politics. TIME China Correspondent Fred Gruin last week headed the following report with a quotation...
Broad-chested Pastor Thurman spoke quietly in his rich baritone. "There is in each of us an innermost center," he began. "When we are concerned with our business and the details of living, this is difficult to discover . . . During these half hours together, let us enter into this experience and quiet...
...Parents and Children, etc.). All are about the same thing-a family struggling under the rule of one or more domestic tyrants. All consist of conversation to the extent that a watermelon consists of water-conversation in which satire and terrifying realism are couched and half-concealed in a difficult, dead-pan prose...