Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would do almost as well, and even the next nine would reap fair-sized consolation prizes. As the finger-wringing elimination concerts wore on, contestants fell by the wayside under the demands of such compositions as a Vieuxtemps concerto, an Ysaÿe sonata, and a collection of "transcendentally difficult works...
...candidates gave their final performances before a tense audience. The judges paid tribute to all twelve finalists. Said Zino Francescatti: "It's going to be enormously difficult for us to pick one above the other." Then they spent two hours carefully tallying their score cards, walked onstage to announce the results. The winner: the U.S.'s Senofsky. Runner-up: Russia's 29-year-old Julian Sitkovetsky...
...first man to hurtle through the sound barrier (in Bell's X-I), makes an entrance in Bridgeman's book that is worthy of jet-age grand opera-and typical of Yeager. As Bridgeman started his first rocket flight in the Skyrocket, bright sunlight made it difficult to read the dials in the cockpit. Suddenly a shadow hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying chase in an F-86 jet, had screened the sun. It was Bridgeman's introduction to Yeager. From then on, he hovers...
...constant shuttles to and from the capital were almost a commuter's nightmare. After another year back at Harvard, he returned to Washington by direct agreement between President Conant and John J. McCloy of the War Department, where he taught a special language program for a year. It was difficult for a civilian to make his force felt, so that when he again found himself in Washington, he made certain it was as a commissioned officer. He never let military etiquette bother him, though: "I didn't know how to salute, or anything like that. There were always generals...
France is a land of rock-bound social strata. Her younger generation is locked at birth into firmly built cellblocks from which escape is virtually impossible and even temporary parole difficult...