Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soup. So he had a surgeon cut a notch in his nose for good peripheral vision. This incident is used by Sir Harold Delf Gillies, Britain's famed and famously light-hearted plastic surgeon, to illustrate the infinite challenges to the imagination that are found in his difficult surgical specialty. A massive new study now tells how Sir Harold and his colleagues treat human flesh as if it were sculptor's clay and reports on the latest heroic operations which restore mutilated bodies to human shape. For a full account, see MEDICINE, Flap Happy...
...then swept into civilian markets with its germanium transistor for the fast-growing pocket-radio and industrial-computer fields. Last week Texins set its sights on still another profitable business: it was the world's first quantity producer of ultra-refined silicon, a key electronics material so difficult to make that its price is $980 a pound...
...month. One midnight last week, while other penitentiary officials made merry at a local fiesta, the special warden unlocked the prison doors and escorted Antonio & Co. to a waiting yellow Ford station wagon. Soon they were sipping tea at Punta Arenas, Chile. "There are ways of fulfilling any difficult task," joshed Millionaire Antonio...
...review it. In one of the few magazine comments on the book, a columnist in the left-wing New Statesman and Nation declared: "His main case is both well founded and important, and it seems to me a shocking thing that it should be made so very difficult for the ordinary reading public to hear it." The New Statesman's columnist: Francis Williams...
Roosevelt said that it would be "very difficult to convince him that the appointment would be beneficial to Harvard, as in his opinion the evidence against Oppenheimer was conclusive...