Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double in-the-air turns to Arranger Hershy Kay's combination of Sousa's The Thunderer and The Gladiator...
...first careful, detailed study of the interior of Antarctica. Starting from Shackleton Base on the Weddell Sea, south of South America, on Nov. 24, it headed for South Ice, an advance base 250 miles inland that was established by Fuchs during the Antarctic spring (Oct.-Nov.). This is fearfully difficult country, with two high, parallel mountain ranges, the Theron Range and the Shackleton Range, looming blackly above the snow. The ice between them is torn into great crevasses. Sometimes vertical ice cliffs rise like stone walls, and level plains turn out to be bogs of deep, soft snow...
Neither of the girls had any previous business experience. "Our friends told us we were complete fools to try," Paula said. "It was difficult at first to convince solid, middle-class Americans that a new artistic endeavor could also be a financial success, but finally we got the backing we needed...
Japan retaliated by arresting some 1,720 Koreans, most of them illegal immigrants, others habitual criminals and longtime residents of Japan. In this atmosphere, talks between Japan and Korea have inevitably been difficult. Four years ago in Tokyo the Korean delegation walked out in a huff when a Japanese spokesman ventured that Japan's occupation of Korea was not entirely bad, that Korea had benefited to the extent of railroads, power systems and public buildings...
...Edmund crossed new and difficult terrain, but his purpose was not primarily exploration. It was to establish supply depots to be used by the Commonwealth transAntarctic expedition led by Britain's Dr. Vivian Fuchs, which is working its way across the whole ice-covered continent from the Weddell Sea, making scientific observations every 30 miles...