Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shockingly about the country, a team of four neurological specialists confirmed specifically that the President had indeed suffered an occlusion accompanied by "slight difficulty in speaking . . . [which] has improved over the period of the last 24 hours and is now manifested only by a hesitancy in saying certain difficult words. Reading, writing and reasoning powers are not affected...
...General White also confirmed that the Air Force is working on a contramissile (antimissile missile). Name: Wizard. Making a contramissile accurate enough to intercept an enemy ballistic missile "will be a terrifically difficult problem," said White, "but I think we will lick...
...brother identifying a body in the darkness along a country road, and of Mary waiting in the kitchen's stark white light, trying to adjust to the expected news of Jay's death. She waits alone despite her aunt's presence because sorrow, like joy, is a loneliness infinitely difficult to communicate even though, and yet because, it depends upon others...
...York and Boston, however, were omitted from the list because these clubs normally maintain close contact with the College and because the large numbers of students from these cities would make selection of speakers difficult, it was said...
...first two "transition" arguments are hardly defensible. It is doubtful that the Houses offer any more difficult transition than does the Yard. Giving freshmen their own set of activities for transition's sake is of equally dubious value; these activities are usually of peripheral importance...