Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many the decision was painfully difficult. This was also the case of the intellectuals and of us students. Every student was shaken by the events to his roots. This is true also for the Communist students. I have discussed with them and they were as unhappy and as distressed as I was. But also for us there were only two ways to deny a part of ourselves and go with the working class or to go against it. And so, in the cruel days of the end of February, we, progressive students, painfully aware of the fact that we were...
...departmental advising system. The General Education Report has recognized the weaknesses as well as the potentialities of a function loosely designed as the left arm of tutorial, but most of its pregnant recommendations for worthwhile advising have fallen still-born. While the problem has always been an especially difficult one, the present inadequacy of many advisor-advisee relationships cannot be overlooked by a University which has been forced to raise both tuition and rent within the space of a term...
...most of which had been so painfully won to pro-American, anti-Soviet collaboration. Even though the actual deed is now canceled, its effects will be felt for a long time. One aftereffect here will be a revival of the deep-seated assumption that Americans are unpredictable and therefore difficult fellows to live with...
...their first concert, the founding fathers rounded up 120 players and 500 singers to give Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. At first the Amsterdam audience was difficult. They came to concerts, but at any hour they pleased, and bringing refreshments. Conductor Willem Kes taught them manners by marching from the podium in mid-concert with the entire orchestra at his heels...
...Ruesch and Bowman do not bother to define "middle class." Peter H. Odegard and E. Allen Helms in American Politics (Harper; 947) say, "Definitions of social and economic classes in modern society are difficult to make, nd particularly so in the United States. . . . The middle class might be defined as including those whose income is derived from salaries, commissions, or fees paid for services...