Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something to Swallow. In a cryptic aside to one of his top aides a few weeks ago Tito said: "The Russians are getting difficult again. This time we've got to swallow it." Western observers, to whom the remark leaked, guessed what Tito was talking about: a few carping lines in Moscow's Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito...
...difficult for observers to trace the anti-Yugoslav cracks to their source: a group of old-line Stalinists, including ex-Foreign Minister Molotov and ex-Premier Malenkov (both pushed out of power by Khrushchev) and powerful, steely-eyed Presidium Member Mikhail Suslov; these three apparently control one or more of the many secretariats or collegia of the Central Committee, and are in a position to plug their own line...
Kissing that begins venial may turn mortal, warned La Palestra. "The spiritual direction of young adolescents," it summed up, "is delicate and difficult...
...recognizing the facts of life," he continued, "and trying to do something in this fashion for the really difficult and moving financial plight in which a number of our married men find themselves...
...justifies his reference to "a plethora of non-essential consumer items"? I could take exception with the rest of the sentence but the phrase "nonessential consumer items" intrigues me. I am curious to discover how he determines the essentiality of a consumer good. Not being omnipotent, I have a difficult time conceiving of anyone being able to decide what is and what is not necessary for each individual...