Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week: "If the Marshall Plan should fail of passage . . . the Republican candidates in November would not carry a state east of Ohio or any state on the Pacific coast. Under such circumstances, defeat for the Republican Party in November would be a blow from which it would be very difficult to recover...
...avalanche of snow hurtled down, picked the last three cars off their narrow-gauge track and carried them over the lip of the precipice. One car went down 30 feet, the other two some 400 (see cut). But all 14 occupants miraculously came out alive. Another snow avalanche, in Difficult Creek Canyon, near Aspen, Colo., killed Skier Alexander McFadden, socialite Memphis cotton manufacturer...
Debonair Louis St. Laurent rose in a half-empty House last week and casually answered Member Bentley by submitting an exchange of notes* in May 1945 (just after V-E day), when Canada and the U.S. agreed to extend the Hyde Park plan for close economic cooperation into the difficult years of reconversion. The bored House hummed with members' private chatter. St. Laurent's words were little noted...
...sang well, Emil Cooper's orchestra did handsomely by Britten's tricky music (the best of his music is written for the orchestra, not for the soloists). But the Met just couldn't break itself of its old habits. Frederick Jagel neither looked nor acted the difficult part of a crude and defiant Suffolk fisherman; he was simply a posturing Wagnerian in a sou'wester. The innkeeper-madam thought the part called for the kind of hand-on-hip coquetry of a road company Carmen...
Charles Edward Ives is a composer U.S. musicians like to talk about-but seldom get to hear. Much of his diffuse, polytonal music is as difficult as trying to play a Bach fugue on a musical saw-and often as strange to listen to. But last week, in Boston, 73-year-old Composer Ives had his innings...