Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even when I took to reading the United Nations Report to large crowds," Abrams said, "the Russians had a difficult time believing that a whole series of events happened in Hungary which their government had deliberately chosen to hide from them. But they listened with avid interest to every word. And from all the later reports and reactions, I gathered that they passed the word along the grape-vine...
...horrid spit of a North Carolina fanatic. But there was the fine, quiet dignity of a pretty, besieged Negro girl in Charlotte, and the warm and courageous heart of a gentle, white-haired woman in Little Rock. Where men and women of good will and good sense prevailed, the difficult, tradition-shattering, inevitable change moved...
...District Judge William H. Atwell had refused to order school integration in Dallas-and twice before he had been reversed by higher courts. Last week the suit brought by parents of 23 Negro schoolchildren came before Judge Atwell again. This time the judge had little choice. "It is difficult for me to approve this order," said he, "but this is a land of law and it is my duty to do what I have been ordered to do by a higher court." Result: the Dallas public schools, with 86,000 white and 17.000 Negro children, must start integration after...
...startling new treatment for schizophrenia marked by delusions of persecution (one of the most difficult forms of the disease) was reported to Zurich by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, director of Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. Key to the treatment: "complete depatterning" of the patient's mind through shock therapy and deep sleep. Unlike brainwashing, Psychiatrist Cameron's method does not seek to implant alien ideas in the mind, but rather to break the chain of schizophrenic reactions and leave the mind free to reorganize itself. Granting that the method is "a sharp tool," Cameron considers it justified...
...novel: "The patient exaggerates his mood and his feelings: he 'lets himself go' and gets himself into a highly emotional state. He is uncooperative, refuses to answer questions or obey orders . . . At other times he will thrash about wildly. His talk may be disjointed and difficult to follow...