Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloodshed and love goes on downstairs old Mrs. Warren lies abed on the second floor, delivering in her omniscient way, prophecies "Hide under the bed or else get out while you can," she tells young Helen, "and take Dr. Parry with you. You love him." But it is difficult to leave the old Warren house except by dying...
...rouses himself to an oratorical fervor of Churchillian stature that all but sweeps away his opponents, including the audience. Glynis Johns' characterization of Major Barbara is much less successful. She possesses an interesting voice--a sort of throaty croak--but the playwright's subtle speech rhythms prove too difficult for her to handle, and her performance often collapses into singsong. Burgess, the professor, seems capable enough though, in view of his large experience, he too is a little disappointing. His character possesses two sides: poet and, ultimately, shrewd businessman. The merchant is present in his performance from the beginning...
...other Masters who could be reached expressed great pleasure at receiving the money, but none has ideas as concrete as Hoadley's. "The difficult will not be to find projects," Joseph L. Walsh '16, Acting Master of Adams House, said, "but to decide among the many projects that merit support...
...thousand University of Kentucky students and Lexington townspeople interrupted him time and time again with short, hard bursts of applause as he belted away at "the opposition." Wherever and however he has served his country, he said, he has never found the choice between "going forward or going backward" difficult. Yet, in 1956, "a lot of politicians" are doing their best to make such a choice look "extremely hard." Then, scornfully, he wondered if such action could be attributed to "people who suffer from living in a world of words and phrases for so long that they can no longer...
...parlor and in Yalta's woods and hills was on "comradeship" among the European Communist Parties. A thoughtful Tito, as he flew back to Belgrade one day last week, must have been brooding deeply about how comradely an independent Yugoslav Communist could afford to be. It was not difficult to understand...