Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years ago in British Guiana. Britain's embarrassed answer then was a task force of three warships and 700 troops to depose him. Last week, after the Northwestern University-educated dentist swept another election (TIME, Aug. 12), a wiser, gentler Britain tried a subtler answer-dumping the difficult problems of running the poverty-stricken little colony directly into Cheddi Jagan...
...trouble spots ("Why do you let niggers come to our white schools?") But beyond that, 13 little Negroes were allowed, more or less in peace, to register in five of 15 newly desegregated elementary schools. Thus, last week, Nashville became the largest city this year to start along the difficult road to integration...
...which these disoriented drifters pass, are gaudily authentic, and indoors or out, the color camera work (directed by Leo Tover) catches the blues of Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris, the gold of Goya in Spain's sunny streets. Against these backgrounds, the essence of Sun is played out. The difficult role of Brett's ultimate conquest, young Bullfighter Pedro Romero, is played with fierce intensity by handsome newcomer Robert Evans. In the movie's arena sequence, Actor Evans conveys Hemingway's paradoxical feeling of affection for what he kills ("The bulls are my best friends"), just...
...enlist support for the idea in six South American capitals and Washington, the Arabs said that they are interested in hearing only one word-independence-and that each day without it widens the gap between Arab and Frenchman, drives moderate Arabs to relentless choices, and makes more difficult an eventual reconciliation in peace...
...incoming investments mask Canada's unfavorable balance of trade ($849 million last year) and even aggravate it by forcing up the dollar's value, thus encouraging imports and making exporters' competition for world markets more difficult. The country's money managers are worried that trade may freeze in this pattern. Yet the alternatives are scarcely inviting. Discouraging foreign investment might touch off a recession. If Canada tried to peg its dollar at a lower level, it would redouble the incentive of foreign capital to invest. And it is questionable whether Canadian taxpayers would willingly finance...