Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while, he lived with his married sister Beth, but found it difficult to compose while Beth's children played trains under his feet, or left sticky traces of jam on the piano. Then he and Librettist Slater moved to Snape in Suffolk, to a windmill which Britten had remodeled as a house. There they plunged into Peter Grimes. Slater would work up in a bedroom, and shout down to Benjy, lolling on the grass, "How do you like this line?" They took long walks over the bleak Suffolk downs, saying nothing to each other, each busy with...
...attend Sunday School," he said enthusiastically, sitting on the crate that he uses for a chair and warming his slender hands over a tiny charcoal brazier. "In the spring I hope to start a day school. I hope also ... to make plans to improve their condition. It is too difficult to change their occupation at once, for they are too poor...
...problem facing the Committee and the Executive Committee which it elected last night, is to express its views with sufficient vehemence and cogency, and to create enough popular support for them to influence Congress in this year of our election, 1948 A.D. The Republicans have been placed in a difficult position by the Marshall Plan. They have been forced to acknowledge the necessity of a European Recovery Program, but they have been prone to tinker with the Administration's proposals. It would be nicer for their political future, they feel, if they could take credit for the program themselves. This...
Despite these disadvantages, a town paper is the best and almost only way to enter journalism, Robert W. Glasgow, Horlad Tribune labor reporter, said. "It's awfully difficult to get a job in New York these days...
...only will school and university administrations take care not to employ Communist Party members, but they would be afraid for their own hides to hire anyone liberal enough to be suspected of advocating communist doctrines. The tremendous restriction of this aspect of the bill on academic freedom would be difficult to over-estimate...