Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown of the already bleach-cleaned barracks, then decided to interrupt it with the night march-a form of stern discipline that had helped make a Marine out of many another boot...
...Spanish enterprises and at least one illegal poster exhorted: "Spanish Republicans, do not forget this day!" Thousands of additional guards were called out to reinforce the already formidable Franco police forces in northern Spain. In a country where strikes are forbidden, the absence of arbitration machinery makes it difficult for the dictatorship to settle the strikes in any way but to crush them...
...believed that to achieve this rather small number of freshmen, the Admissions Office will have to accept many fewer students than it has in the past. It is understood that if more than 1000 freshmen register in the fall, it will be very difficult for the College to provide rooms...
...crux of the proposed legislation, however, calls for a broad extension of Federal law to protect voters through civil proceedings. Under existing statutes only harsh criminal procedure is open to the Attorney General. Such action often involves emotionally charged trials which are difficult for both sides. Because the primary aim of any civil rights law is to correct an abuse and not to punish an offender, civil proceedings should certainly be made available to the government...
...scaled the problems so that students would get most of them correct, even giving them hints. For example, he would use larger or colored numbers in the more difficult problems. As the student advanced, the differences between the distinctions would become less and less. In a language, he says he might give words that rhyme to help in translation. "They might hit the right answer for the wrong reason, but eventually they would learn the right reason, too." Far from fearing the machine, Skinner says, "the children love it. It gives them no anxieties...