Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unbeaten as of last Friday, the Cub sextet will represent the Yardlings' first difficult game of the current season. Although the Crimson, too, boasts an undefeated slate, the triumphs have been mainly over local prep schools and high schools and tonight's clash will only be the team's second taste of intercollegiate competition...
...protection of corporations to conduct their business in any way they saw fit. However, for almost half a century the Court has been in the process of slowly altering its point of view. It struck down the "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution. It has made it exceedingly difficult for the Democratic party in the South to exclude Negroes from the party primaries except by threat or use of force. It has overruled convictions of both whites and Negroes which were secured without regard to due process...
...accomplished actor might conceivably have made a convincing character out of this attorney, in spite of the inadequacies of the script. Peck is not yet cagey or accomplished enough. He carries his trial scenes with considerable style; and he comes close to some first-rate acting in his difficult crack-up scene. But his lawyer is never one of the most brilliant in England, as the story claims; the role is not brilliantly conceived or written, and Peck, for all his virtues, is not a brilliant...
...disillusionment at year's end, Socialist Arthur Koestler wrote of Britain: "The problem of incentives is the most difficult and most important problem of Socialist economy [and yet] the massacre of incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted...
...this particular speech, however, the President presented a picture of a country materially so well off that it would be difficult for anyone to become excited about the need for further social reforms. He buried unpleasant facts beneath a barrage of optimism...