Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After another year or so of strolling through the U.S., the Gills plan another European jaunt-then, perhaps, Australia. Eventually, when they become too feeble to keep up with their walkathon, they hope to pick out the pleasantest town they have seen and settle down. It will be a difficult decision to make. "I have the names of a thousand towns jotted down in my notebooks," says Dorothea Gill, "and after each one I have the notation, 'This is the place I'd like most to live...
...gracefully. He had blinked at insubordination by high military officers, tolerated defiance from his own ministers, allowed appointees to modify his orders and obstruct his express wishes. In so doing, he had jeopardized his own claim to leadership. Yet his very temporizing had forced Frenchmen to accept the difficult fact: France must be generous to North Africa or lose...
...merit system and other accomplishments--like the recruitment of many new teachers and the building of new school plants--are difficult to change into good slogans. But good candidates can often compensate for a lack of good slogans, and the CCA slate this year contains six candidates worthy of election...
...last year. In last spring's drive at Harvard, less than half of the total amount collected went to the six charities picked by the Student Council. The majority of funds went to well-known national charities, but there were a number of small donations which are difficult to explain. Both the Harvard Athletic Association and the Harvard Band Drum Fund, for example, received small checks from Combined Charities. Legally they may qualify as "charities," but they are scarcely appropriate as true philanthropies...
...symptoms of mononucleosis are deceptively common: A sore throat, a little fever, perhaps some perspiring, slightly swollen glands, and a listless, fatigued feeling. These usual Monday morning sensations are often ignored by students, allowing the disease to entrench and become disproportionately difficult to cure...