Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress, in its attempts to slash the President's record Budget, is cutting some impractical corners. Since the legislators find it difficult to pare down the large items, they are trying to whittle away lesser expenditures. These cuts seriously impair the functions of the agencies concerned. While the Post Office won its battle, the Weather Bureau now finds itself in danger. Its request for funds should not be sacrificed to the insignificant savings which would result from such cuts...
...difficult to say who the losing pitcher should be, since the Crimson scored in every inning except the first, nor was it behind after the top of the second. Technically, defeat would go to clean-up batting, utility fielding, Mike Baldovski, who started the game...
Unfortunately the rest of the April Advocate can make no such claims. Most of the work is a stringing together of diversions, a collection of imaginings without order. And this makes criticism both necessary and difficult, for the critic must attempt to define chaos...
Toward Expiation. Morris Bober's world is bounded by his seedy store, his endlessly nagging wife Ida, his difficult daughter Helen-a girl who wants "to be a virgin again and at the same time a mother"-and his wealthy neighbor Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with misfortune, as if there were just so much luck in the world and what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair...
...Mountain Peak has to be read to be disbelieved. It is cornball escape fiction of a kind that has been difficult to escape ever since the sahibs laid down the white man's burden and picked up the portable typewriter...