Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week when the British announced their revolutionary new defense posture, Australia decided to pattern its fighting equipment, in size and design, after the U.S. instead of Britain. "In the event of global war," said Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "it would be difficult for the U.K. to maintain a supply line to Southeast Asia, though the U.S. undoubtedly could do so. Although Australia is wholeheartedly a British nation, this policy is not heresy-it merely recognizes the facts...
...pice (.015 rupee). But through it all, Decimalist Nehru seemed pleased and proud of his changeover, as well he might. He had decided to get it over while India was still largely unencumbered by adding machines and cash registers. "The later we made it," he said, "the more difficult it would have been...
...Romance Languages Department is as yet in doubt as to whether it will continue the courses in Dante which Singleton now teaches, Raimundo Lida department chairman, said yesterday. Lida felt it would be "a very difficult problem" to replace Singleton...
...mute boy, Toby, was written for a performer who must combine the abilities of dancer and mime. Eugene Gervasi distinguishes himself in both capacities. He quite brilliantly manages to make his body and hands express the boy's desperate eagerness to speak, and, what is perhaps more difficult, project his love for the medium's daughter...
...skill. James Matisoff, playing the Emperor is impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After her famous entrance ("ravished; her hands cut off and her tongue cut out") she is fully successful...