Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the time he leaves his home in Lexington and takes the Boston and Maine Railroad to North Cambridge. Such a depiction should by its very nature interest alumni; it will also point out, however, how hard faculty members must work, how low, comparatively, are their salaries, and how difficult it is to find decent, reasonably priced homes in Cambridge...
...must support group-research projects-for teamwork is the trend-but it must be careful not to slight the lone wolf. It has a responsibility to follow up its grants, but it must not dictate what its grantees do. Finally, it must master one of the most difficult tasks of all in foundationmanship-knowing when to terminate a grant. It must be able to get out of a project that is leading nowhere, but it must not end a project before it really bears fruit...
RIGHT-TO-WORK LAWS will be difficult for state courts to enforce in labor disputes involving companies engaged in interstate trade. U.S. Supreme Court ruling reversed earlier decision by Tennessee Supreme Court, which ordered Electrical Workers in Nashville to stop picketing construction firm employing non-union workers. Supreme Court said that NLRB, not state court, has sole jurisdiction because company was in interstate commerce...
...have applied Pavlov's principles to their practices in extorting confessions or making brainwashed conversions. Many experts believe that confession and conversion should not be lumped, that confessions involve different emotional mechanisms. (Another distinction: confessions and temporary conversions are common and easily obtained; true, long-lasting conversions are difficult and more rare.) An exhaustive study for the U.S. Department of Defense by Manhattan Drs. Lawrence E. Hinkle and Harold G. Wolff-based on hundreds of intensive studies of escaped and repatriated prisoners from Eastern Europe and China and with former Red inquisitors who have "come over"-showed that modern...
...regard as a display of beauty for the greater glory of God, and which older Presbyterians regard as near-idolatry and even younger ones regard as play-acting-the bishop in his robes has long been one of the most potent symbols. The ordinary Scot will find it surprisingly difficult to get himself, let alone his grandfather, to swallow this." Equally hard to choke down is the committee's stipulation that the Scots' bishops be consecrated initially by a laying on of hands by Anglican bishops...