Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scientist Teller carefully refrains from raking over the old controversy about whether an H-bomb should be attempted. He says he does not know enough to write of the political controversy over the H-bomb, "but I feel that great gratitude is due to the men who in those difficult weeks [after the Soviet atomic explosion about Sept. 1, 1949] arrived at the correct conclusions," i.e., to proceed with all possible speed toward the development of an H-bomb. Teller's account minimizes his own part in that development far beneath the credit given him by other scientists, including...
...analytic schools will have to meet on common ground in the middle. His quietly persuasive argument: the analysts talk of ego defenses being torn down in a psychosis, and when this happens the already anxious patient is overwhelmed. Psychotherapy tries to restore the ego, but this is extremely difficult because the anxiety, now almost a physical entity, has unleashed a flood of physiological processes...
...extra two hours a night would also create serious staff problems, since state law prevent girls from working in the library after 10 p.m. "It would be difficult to get male help for Lamont," McNiff continued, "Especially of the calibre of the staff we have...
...coach Murray Murdoch realized his problem last week, when he said before the game, "We're strong defensively, but it's difficult to try to cope with such speed as Harvard has this year...
Beneath Miller's jovial tone, it is not difficult to sense the horror that he saw in the war. When he was in Japan in 1952 for a summer seminar, he recalls the "moving and pathetic" there days at Hiroshima. "It was hard explaining," he recalls, "why you take their guns and ships and tanks away and then five years later you urge them to rearm. It just seemed inconsistent." Perhaps he was thinking of this paradox when he later wrote for The Atlantic: ". . . vast segments of our people are . . . devouring treatises on peace of mind, when everbody knows there...