Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to have much respect for a group of self-styled student leaders who spend much time throwing pamphlets under our doors prior to an election, but who become quite inactive after the results have been tabulated. I have had the most unsatisfactory experience of arriving for a council meeting at seven o'clock--the time for which they are called--and having to wait anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half for the meeting to commence. Sometimes the wait will be a full week, since often a quorum cannot be mustered...
...Snooks Kelly's Eagles, the game was a sad awakening. The inexperienced B.C. team had only its indomitable hustle to stop the Crimson from embarrasing it beyond recognition. And the Eagles, with a schedule almost as difficult as the varsity's, seems doomed to a losing season for the second time in 20 years...
...cast for both Trial and Pinafore was essentially the same. Morgan Wheelock was the judge, "and a good judge, too." He has mastered the difficult art of patter singing, and it is a pity he did not take the patter role in Pinafore, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph was played by Jeffery Lewins; he has a fine manner but lacks the driving acidity of tone the patter songs demand. He was more successful speaking than singing...
Lost Trousers. But unseating Mayor Senaga proved a more difficult task than either U.S. military authorities or the Okinawan businessmen reckoned. Last summer, when the anti-Senaga city assembly rapped him with a no-confidence vote, Senaga dissolved the assembly and called new elections, in which he increased his supporters in the 30-man assembly from six to twelve...
Even in success, Tony resolutely leads the simple life. He still lives in his old bachelor apartment ($50 a month) on Manhattan's West Side, drinks milk instead of martinis, dodges nightclubs, wears baggy tweeds. A trifle nearsighted, he reads voraciously (Wolfe, Camus, Fitzgerald), memorized the long, difficult part of Gene in one day. His main relaxation: late night TV and movies...