Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marquand admitted that his early years as a professional writer were a difficult period. "When my publisher first read the manuscript of The Late George Apley," he related, "he turned pale and suggested that it be written under a nom de plume...
Guillen said that the poet was particularly difficult to interpret and understand, since he wrote "a very special poetry for the specialists...
...skepticism about U.S. defense's present three-service structure. "So far," he said, "we have not been able, in the definition of the roles and missions of the services, to keep pace with evolving weapons system technology. As a consequence we lengthen our lead time, we make more difficult our decision-making processes, we needlessly increase costs, and we find it difficult to avoid friction and duplication of effort...
...with each other on a greatly contracted globe; how to have law and order in the world; how to extend industrialization throughout the world; how to eliminate racial strife and solve the problems of the heritage of hatred left behind by oppression and past discords. In all these really difficult problems, the problem of the scientific race is only a small part. But if we fail in that, we won't even have a voice in these bigger problems...
...ticklishness of his international position, stayed at home in Belgrade. But to show how civilized the Soviet state has become, the audience even included three discredited Khrushchev foes-Georgy Malenkov, Dmitry Shepilov and Lazar Kaganovich (who, when asked about his present work, replied: "That would be very difficult to explain just now"). On the dais, clustered around Red China's Mao Tse-tung, sat the leaders of 13 Communist nations, the rulers of nearly a billion people...