Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspense than California's U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland. After the favorable report on Eisenhower's health, Knowland relaxed his unofficial pre-convention campaigning somewhat, but did nothing to discourage the entry of his name in several state primaries, e.g., Minnesota, Illinois. Knowland's was a difficult stand: he wanted to be running full speed if the President said no, and sitting in the cheering section if the President said...
...China's mainland, the worried members met to consider whether or not they should disband. Lew Kay, 62, an American of Chinese parentage and the first Chinese graduate of the University of Washington (1909), rose to plead for going on. "Of course many fellow Americans find it difficult to grasp what is happening in China today," he said. "All the more reason why we, who know the importance of free China, should keep up our work. To abandon it is to abandon our own conscience." He paused, clutched his chest and fell dead of a heart attack...
...Fear (Harper; $3.50), he reports that he found what he was looking for. Among Bushmen and Basutos, Hottentots and Masai, from 95% to 98% go through childbirth like his own prize patients, with no untoward pain. Notable exceptions are women who have committed adultery: they often have long and difficult labor. Dr. Dick Read was amazed to learn of women who had been in painful labor for two or three days but who, when persuaded to confess their adultery, suddenly relaxed and "released the baby from the birth canal in a few minutes with no further trouble." These exceptions...
...University could have anticipated the demand for an eighth house and sought to buy up the land ten years ago. It could have anticipated the decline of local housing facilities and taken steps before the need became critical. But apparently the lack of informed planning made such foresight difficult...
Alfred Deller, Counter-tenor, sings these works now usually sung by contraltos, but in Bach's day by boys. Deller has an amazingly pure voice, much like a child's in quality yet capable of handling the difficult Bach vocal line. He is accompanied by a small Baroque orchestra, and the combination is probably quite close to the music's original sound. The recording is difficult to appreciate on the first hearing, but the result is a wonderful kind of impersonal exaltation. (Bach Guild...