Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human complaint, and a few of their own. Some of the commonest for which animals are now treated: arthritis or bursitis (by injections of hydrocortisone), adenoiditis, tonsillitis and undescended testicles (all treated by surgery); respiratory infections (antibiotics). The human-animal parallel is so close that if he has a difficult case many a vet will often talk it over with an M.D.; Dr. McBride recently sought guidance from a proctologist on a case of canine hemorrhoids...
This "pinch effect" is the most promising approach to thermonuclear power, but unfortunately the pinched current wriggles so violently that it tends to slam in millionths of a second against the walls of its container. The trick, a difficult one, is to make it stand still as long as possible and not touch the walls...
John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, commented that "Once you get down to the practical problem of living out, it is not an easy one." He expressed the sentiment that it might be difficult for students to find agreeable living conditions in Cambridge...
...Soviet Russia's civil air ministry. Besides hauling passengers and freight, it carries out a massive program of crop dusting and sowing; it runs meteorological and oil-pipeline surveys, organizes flying clubs, maintains all nonmilitary airports and directs two colleges which train pilots and ground technicians. It is difficult to tell where the Red air force leaves off and Aeroflot begins. Bossing it is onetime Air Force Commander in Chief (1950-57) Chief Air Marshal Pavel Zhigarev, 60. veteran pilot and bomber expert who got the airline job a year...
...fortune into her purse. At 19 she bore him a son. When she took the infant to be baptized, she named her own father and mother as the parents, and when asked the father's profession, replied with simple spontaneity: "Plumber." All this has made accurate biography difficult...