Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to say much more about a nice, pretty film than that...
Once in operation, the NATO missile ring would give a vital resurgence of strength to the NATO defenses. The missile launchers themselves will be highly mobile and difficult to spot, hence all but immune to attack by Khrushchev's vaunted rocketry. In the event of a Russian missile attack on cities, the NATO rockets would be sure to respond. Thus, thanks to the IRBMs, the powerful deterrent now provided by the U.S. Air Force (see cover story) and Navy will be extended into the age of total missilery-a period beginning in two to four years when the Russians...
...decisions were being taken, the personality of Defense Secretary Neil McElroy began to emerge. McElroy, 53, had come five weeks ago from the presidency of Procter & Gamble at the most difficult possible time-a time of instability caused by technology, politics, economics, interservice rivalries and Sputnik. While he learned the ropes, most of Washington wondered if he was much more than a soap salesman. Last week, at his first press conference, he proved that he knew what he was talking about. Principal points: he admitted without argument or alibi that the U.S. is behind in satellite and long-range-missile...
...surgeons learned last week of far-reaching Soviet progress in a difficult field -the rejoining of severed blood vessels. The Russians' answer to the problem: a stapling...
...third, the criteria for clearance on the whole are over-rigorous, artificial, and inflexible. Through petty technicality, we have wasted the talents of some of the possible top contributors, Oppenheimer being a prominent, though controversial example. It is difficult and expensive to clear a national of even the most friendly foreign country--and after all, the bulk of basic research in atomic physics and rocketry has been done by foreigners. Moreover, such a disqualifying factor as having even distant relatives in a Soviet-bloc country, though sensible in general, has become an ironclad rule. But perhaps the most outstanding excess...