Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Purchases outside the student messhall, investigators report, are made extremely difficult because of black market conditions overseas...
Something for Everybody. Individual taxpayers would find the new schedules as hard to understand as ever, but not at all difficult to take; there was something for everybody. Lifting of personal exemptions from $500 to $600 (and an extra $600 for those 65 or over) would take all or much of the sting out of the income tax for low-income families. For 7,400,000 lower-bracket families (up to $2,000 net income) it meant no more income tax at all. For about 55 of every 100 taxpayers-those with more than $2,000 but less than...
...Instead, which looked like a folded-up air raid instruction poster, was an unhappy combination of surrealism and existentialism. Publisher John Myers wanted a monthly magazine which would be "hard, virile, masculine, and which would raise difficult questions that had never been asked before...
...place sexual satisfaction. An 'easy lay' is not a good 'date,' and conversely. . . ." For many girls, says Gorer, the "dating" period is one of humiliation, of frustration, of failure. But such unsuccessful girls are often married earlier and better than the "belles" who find it difficult to give up such triumphs...
...next liberty taken by Mr. Woodworth was that of cutting the rich instrumental score of the original down to a meager violin, oboe, 'cello, horn, and piano continue. Although it would doubtless have been difficult to use a full-size orchestra on the Sanders stage, surely more could have been done with the situation than this feeble quintet, which was forced to play against more than 170 voices. As it was, the instrumentalists present were far from perfect in tone or even pitch, and their weakness undermined the total effect...