Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rabbi Gold emphasized several times that a student can take or leave his Jewish tradition once he knows what it is. "It is difficult to take or leave something one doesn't know...
Like earlier Hamilton Basso heroes. Plantation Owner John Bottomley is clearly derived from John P. Marquand. He is handsome but not terribly bright, brimful of ideals that make life difficult for him. Though often obstinate, he is invariably polite, and when older men say something nauseous, he answers "Yes, sir" in a mildly disapproving tone. When women quarrel, he never understands that they are quarreling about him. The girls are pure Marquand, too. always prattling merrily about nothing while the men brood, and when noble-souled John says something portentous to them, they respond with irrelevancies-"You need a haircut...
...chained to each other . . . We are sure this plan was never designed to bring about agreement ... It stands to reason that this is a graphic manifestation of the technique of tying up problems of different nature in a single large tangle as a means of making their solution more difficult...
Blood typing is not difficult if done carefully, and Dr. Moore found that most mismatched transfusions were caused not by technical errors but by simple human failures-mixing up specimen tubes, mislabeling and similar clerical errors. Worst of all, Dr. Moore charged that in more than half the cases with fatal reactions, the transfusion was not necessary or even desirable. Many physicians, he suggests, give one bottle to be on the safe side. One bottle is rarely, if ever, enough to do any good-but may easily be enough to do harm...
...dose has been sweetened somewhat in a calculated effort to liberalize the press-and to keep the reader swallowing the party pill. With full official sanction, newspapers began criticizing each other: "Soviet newspapers," wrote Pravda in a recent and scathing Press Day editorial, "are insipid, lifeless, deadly dull and difficult to read." Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth paper, erupted in a rash of sensational feature stories, e.g., "What Role Does Love Play in Marriage?" Pravda's publishing house gave birth to a new daily, Sovetskaya Rossia, which in three years has built a circulation of 1,500,000 by offering...