Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clinical Heart Disease" Samuel A. Levene, Professor of Medicine, writes of coronary thrombosis that "there is no other condition in the practice of medicine in which it is so difficult to prognosticate... The physician should remain hopeful under the darkest circumstances and yet give a guarded prognosis when the progress seems most favorable...
...supersensitive finish line is difficult to imagine, also, because it must not be affected by the waves caused by the swimmers. Yet it must respond to the lightest pressure of the hand...
...graduates of a ten-year school can continue their studies, however. In fact, it is increasingly difficult to get into either an institute or a university. Technically, a student with all A's (or 5's, in the Russian system) can gain admission. Nowadays, however, this is no longer enough for the bigger universities. Most of them have started accepting only those students who have received a special gold medal for their-preparatory work or those who do well on a special examination, called the "concours." For provincial universities and institutes, however, the A's are still enough...
...Mielziner, creator of sets and lighting, extraordinary, adds another triumph to the growing list of shows he has decorated this season. The stage displays a variety and imagination which would be difficult to achieve in a less professional show. The entire production has a Radio-City sheen that is often hard to resist. A couple more rousing songs, and some chopping of the dull ones, would raise the material to the technical level of the production...
Rehabilitating commercial relations between this country and the Soviet bloc is made difficult primarily by three factors: American export controls, Soviet purchase demands, and reticence on the part of U.S. business interests. A glance at the statistics illustrates how these conditions have decreased U.S.-Soviet trade...