Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that European universities are more like our graduate and scientific schools than our liberal arts colleges. He added that the Germans find it difficult to understand what a liberal arts college really...
...Theatre on the Green appears to be climbing a platonic ladder of laughs, and with the current production of Shaw's Man and Superman the company has reached a high rung which will prove difficult...
Buffeted by the ocean's roll, the dog Boston had picked up in Bermuda soon became a mass of welts and bruises. "I found it difficult to shoot Mudie," said Boston, "but it was the most humane thing to do. He sort of yelped and turned over." Alone again, Boston longed for any sort of companionship, wrote in his log: "Noticed a very small fish swimming near the rudder. I hope that he stays there. It will be nicer to have company...
...National Press Club in Washington, Murrow's boss, CBS President Frank Stanton, also upheld the right of broadcasters to editorialize, but stressed how thorny a right it is. TV, complained Stanton, lacks the tradition and experience of the press in editorializing; moreover, "it would be most difficult [for networks] to take editorial positions acceptable to all our affiliated stations." Commentator Murrow had a more succinct explanation for the failure of broadcasters to editorialize. Said he: "They have no guts...
Frederick O. Raubinger, New Jersey Commissioner of Education, foresaw a "difficult period for the next decade" with special problems arising from the mobility of population and of teaching personnel...