Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick up a large package. They followed the women back to their apartment and caught them busily boiling down a batch of opium. There was still no direct proof that Métra had provided the opium, but the police kept watching and waiting. The watching was doubly difficult since Métra knew all the cop tricks, and it would not do to trail him in the familiar black Citroen...
American dog lovers, who seem to put up with a lot of nonsense, have never taken to bulldogs. Whelping is difficult; for all their rugged exterior, they often have a frail constitution. They are shortlived (six years is considered old). Most important, they are unsociable. "Jock is probably the most disobedient dog I've ever known," said his diminutive (120 lbs.) owner, California Physician John A. Saylor. "He never plays. Bulldogs sit and brood-when they're not sleeping, that is. Jock spends nine-tenths of his waking hours asleep." With fine disdain Jock stood in the ring...
...after skimming through the compulsory figures, honey-haired Tenley Albright, 19, stood poised and calm on Vienna's open-air rink as the band swung into a lilting melody. Then, with all the confidence of a champion, long-legged Tenley glided out to begin her free skating-the difficult double loops and axels and double salchows of her own devising...
...young, Irish wife, and Joanna Hutchins as her fairy godmother give their parts plenty of spirited individuality. And if wit and enthusiasm were enough, the play would come off very successfully. As it stands, however, it suffers from weak directing by Woody Price. The handling of asides, admittedly difficult, is clumsy in spots, and the timing often seems disjointed, with the result that the play lacks requisite smoothness...
Admission to the Medical School will become increasingly difficult future years, Kendall Emerson, Jr., Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, predicted yesterday...