Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to see that the Administration could have acted otherwise. With a different combination of circumstances, the necessity for force might have been averted, but without the 101st Airborne Division in Little Rock, integration would not be a fact today. Even more important, a mob would have succeeded in mocking the highest law of the United States...
Where demand cannot support two firms, in birthday cake sales, for example, the problem is more difficult. The best expedient would seem to be allowing all prospective cakemen to compete for the franchise each year, forcing the incumbent to show that he was providing quality and service at a fair price. If not, bureaucratic stagnation could easily set in, and overshadow the fine effects that the creation of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., should have on the student employment field here...
Back in Grand Forks with $2.50 in his pocket, Davies opened a law office "about the size of a lavatory." He won his first case, a suit for payment on a promissory note. Says he: "It wasn't a very difficult case. The man owed the money." In 1932 Davies was elected municipal judge (at $135 a month) in Grand Forks; he served two terms and retired in 1940 because "I didn't want to get tagged with the title of police-court judge." He entered the Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk...
...method, which is being studied further at New York Hospital, the University of Miami and other research centers, could stretch existing supplies many times (the Public Health Service reports 85 million cc. will be available by Jan. 1). Drawback: though long practiced by allergists, the intracutaneous technique is difficult, not well known to many U.S. G.P.s...
...made his reputation by the portrayal of violent emotion, and this state of spirit he portrays most vividly. Indeed, he seems unable to portray anything else. Does he eat a sandwich? No, he tears it to pieces like a starved piranha. As Palance plays his parts, it becomes increasingly difficult to decide which is the sane brother and which the crazy one. In any case, if there is anything more depressing than Actor Palance...