Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rayburn consulted with Northern liberal Democrats, who warned him that the Republican plan would be politically difficult for them to oppose. Late one afternoon, Rayburn went over to the other side of the Capitol for a heart-to-heart talk with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. They agreed that some sort of civil rights bill had to be passed at this session; otherwise, the party-splitting issue would return to plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate...
...almost 700 years after Pompey's conquest, Syria was a Roman and Byzantine province, but sometimes it was difficult to tell who were the conquerors and who the conquered. When Rome celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of her founding in A.D. 248, the Roman Emperor was Syrian-born Philip the Arab. As the incubator of Christianity-Paul was converted on the road to Damascus-Syria gave Rome five Popes: John V, St. Sergius, Sisinnius, Constantine and St. Gregory...
...reviewing, but feels that, in order to appear deserving of his position, he ought to criticize something." Having stated this definition. Author Leonard Drohan sets out to harpoon the nit of wit among civil servants and middleweight army brass at a Government bureau, a task about as difficult as shooting a whale in a swimming pool. But Drohan, who has worked in the U.S. civil service off and on since 1942, gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government may be like spoofing Hollywood-reality is so much more preposterous than any possible fiction...
Because surgery to remove venom sacs is so difficult, commercial producers of immunizing extracts prefer to grind up the whole insects and make them into an injectable preparation. (In this method, one school argues, there may be a danger of sensitizing a subject to allergy-causing proteins from other parts of the insect's body.) At the Hollister-Stier Laboratories in Spokane, Bacteriologist Edward L. Foubert Jr. has concluded that only a few species of Hymenoptera are important stingers in any one area, and that since most victims do not know just which varieties have stung them...
There is a grisly fascination to Author Shute's story of mankind's last days. Yet his characters seem curiously bloodless despite their courage and stoicism. It is difficult to believe that men and women would die as these do-without panic, self-seeking, sexual frenzy, or apocalyptic evangelism. But then it is also difficult to believe in the end of the world...