Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very difficult anymore to get a visa for travel in the Soviet Union. Ten years ago, no one went behind the Iron Curtain. And still last year the U.S. government was stamping all passports, "Not valid for travel to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
Malia's most valuable student contacts came in Moscow, where he spent almost three months. Normally it is very difficult to get into the university there, which has an enrollment of about 8,000 students, most of whom live in university dormitories. One needs a written pass to attend lectures or to visit the dormitories, although at the other universities Malia found he could wander around by looking as if he belonged there...
...fill the need for fundamental research bringing together the knowledge and research of both the social and applied scientist." He emphasized that recent population increases and technological improvements have greatly complicated the study of conservation techniques. "Federal laws on the field are confusing and inconsistent, making comprehensive, integrated programs difficult to develop," he said...
...with his highly imaginative use of experimental techniques is a lack, at times, of the continuity expected today of any movie. What Eisenstein has to say is more often implied through his images than stated on the screen. These things make Ten Days That Shook the World both a difficult and a great film...
Wolfson points to some ten pupils to illustrate his theory. He has a tape recording of one of them singing all the principal roles of The Magic Flute, from the Queen of the Night's famously difficult coloratura (F above the staff) to Sarastro's well-deep basso (F below the bass staff). A group of four women students recorded the minuet from a Haydn string quartet, singing cello, viola and violin parts. One boy has recorded his rumbles and squeaks over a range of seven octaves, a young man has produced close to nine under Wolfson...