Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move became necessary because of the many secondary schools which no longer teach Latin or do not teach it sufficiently well, making it difficult for many good students to meet the requirement, Monro Engel, assistant professor and head tutor in English explained...
...racial currents and religious crosscurrents of New York politics take form in the persons and careers of Bob Wagner, 46, and Jack Javits, 52, the one a Catholic who was born to the political manor and now holds one of the world's biggest-and most cruelly difficult-political jobs; the other a Jew who rose from squalor to become the highest elected Republican official in the state today...
...arguments all go back to the fact that air is free and music in the air is fleeting. Composers could almost always collect cash for sheet music and later for recordings, but collecting for public and broadcast performances was more difficult. For the past generation the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has been handling such collections, the largest share of them in the form of flat annual fees from broadcasting stations, which nowadays amount to as much as $18 million a year. The bite was painful, and in 1939 broadcasters raised the cry of "monopoly" against ASCAP...
...opening contest pits the Crimson against Tufts, and this Jumbo eleven will not be as difficult as the one the football team meets the next Saturday. This should count...
...tedious, and it is also undoubtedly true that Nasser was trying to bluff the West with a nonexistent Soviet offer. But how the West could have withdrawn its offer only two days after Nasser had publicly accepted it, and at the same time have expected no startling results, is difficult to understand. Washington obviously thought a public insult by the deeply distrusted West would result in the Colonel's returning humbly to ask for money. But the prize had been dangled in front of Nasser for so long that Mr. Dulles was asking for the worst by pulling it away...