Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...methods of taxing income is persistent nonsense. Our Federal Government could even increase its tax revenues without employing inquisitorial methods or relying on self-assessment-a device which rewards skulduggery and penalizes the unsophisticated and the honest. For small taxpayers with income other than wages, it is often more difficult to compute the tax than...
...acting--and the result is most charming. Her sister is played by Linda Latter, whose singing is clear without being shrill, and who is perhaps best described as pert. Their gondolier lovers are Paul Sperry and James Greene; both sing with energy and clarity, combining amazingly well on the difficult duets...
...pitiful without a touch of the maudlin. And Elizabeth Allen's performance presents Louise Scobie in terms so plausible that it is impossible to condemn her. Without careful performances in there two roles, Howard's job of showing the desperate insolubility of Scobie's problem would have been incredibly difficult. As it is, however, his quiet agony of indecision is totally convincing...
...that Rhinelander has laid the difficult administrative groundwork, it is perhaps only natural that University officials should be on the lookout for widely recognized scholars to accept temporary chairmanships of Committee on General Education. Although not previously considered by the faculty, the new plan will certainly have its advantages-closer affiliation and cooperation between the Committee and the faculty as a whole, as well as a constant influx of new ideas...
...Matthew Neely] has had the temerity to express his irritation with [the President's] well-publicized churchgoing habits. . . Then, why you devoted one page in JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES to the epistle of AECommissioner Murray ("Science and religion must join if the world is to survive the H-bomb") is difficult to understand...