Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the University at the present time. It has, therefore, been necessary to import a visitor from outside to give the various geographical seminars on that country. When Mr. Ackerman's appointment ends, the geographical study of China will be placed on the same basis. It will be very difficult, indeed, to find a man of equal ability...
During the campaign, the police had given Peronistas every break, had gone out of their way to make life difficult for the opposition. But the elections themselves were free and fair; the opposition admitted it, and the results showed it. At week's end, with all their disadvantages, the opposition had managed to get about 35% of the vote (compared with 45% two years ago). Moreover, though Perón's much-publicized candidate Father Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) was elected deputy from Buenos Aires, he ran well behind the others on the party ticket. Among opposition...
Avon, wrote Mrs. Riddle firmly, "was founded for the sons of the gentry. ... It is difficult, if not impossible, for Avon to develop [honor and culture] in a boy, if he has not been trained in early years." She expected the well-born youngsters to wear black ties and dark jackets by night, Brooks Brothers grey flannels by day, play no interscholastic sport except polo, learn fly-casting and the manly art of self-defense...
...exception of the rotund buffoonbass Salvatore Baccaloni, who sang Leporello, the supporting cast did not quite click. Charles Kullman as Don Ottavio gave an adequate performance of some of the best music of the opera, but you couldn't always hear him. And Rose Bampton's Donna Anna, a difficult role to be sure, was still a disappointment...
...Training and Selective Service are steps in the wrong direction above all else because they have been advanced under the influence of the fuzzy-minded concept that everything left-of-center is totalitarian. But even assuming that such military mobilization did provide the key to the situation it is difficult to see how the President's program would accomplish its aims. What will United States military force be able to achieve if, for example, Italy actually elects a government controlled by Communists? Will we fight? If we determine to act in this manner hope for peace will in effect vanish...