Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult hurdles a new French Premier must leap without laming himself, the first and foremost is Algeria. Campaigning, Mollet had promised quick action to end the violence and killing there. His first major pronouncement in office was that he would go to Algeria...
...negotiate some form of "self-determination" for Cyprus if the islanders "sincerely cooperate" in arranging a gradual change to self-government. Makarios replied with a letter to Sir John that he would accept this as "a basis for continuing our joint efforts toward a solution." It would be difficult not to: the British proposal is practically the same as Makarios offered them four months ago (and the British then refused...
Vintage Rotgut. For those who want to hear the original version, there is a new Threepenny Opera album in German (Vanguard), fascinating largely because it shows how difficult it is for vintage rotgut to travel. The "chamber orchestra" of the august Vienna State Opera bravely buckles down to the hurdy-gurdy score with its plinky-plink banjos, but it is played with excruciating slowness. The star is a charming Viennese nightclub chanteuse named Liane, who sounds less like Polly Peachum than an operetta shopgirl mooning over an archduke. The record does have its high spots, notably the duet between...
...twelve years, the professor automatically reaches a final salary of $7,680, but the Division of Personnel and Standardization bars merit raises. When the professor dies, the division is apt to downgrade his post to an associate professorship, thus making proper replacement even more difficult than it would be normally. "If the librarian requires top-level professional assistants," says Mather, "he will be told by the division that he cannot have them because the mental hospitals do not have assistants in their libraries. When a professorship becomes vacant in the history department, and we want to use the money...
...college professors agreed last night that Kuiper's claim is a perfectly possible one, but both felt that it would be quite difficult to prove...