Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than the opener with the Redmen from Amherst; what they will really see this afternoon is the first look-- and perhaps a conclusive one--at the 1954 varsity season. They are not expecting a close game today, and they know only too well that if the first opponent proves difficult, the remaining seven foes should be practically impossible...
Since the Army tries to keep its ROTC program uniform, Dupuy said, it might be difficult to find suitable textbooks under the new plan. At present the Army allows a 25 percent leeway in selecting texts...
From another college source comes a less matter-of-fact appraisal. "A number of professors hero are now feverishly trying to obtain positions elsewhere, and many expected to resign in the near future. Department heads and administrators also admit that it is going to be difficult to recruit new members for the faculty in the near future." The same source expresses deep anxiety over the expansion of political control if Governor Herman Talmadge makes good his threat to make public schools "private schools" in order to contravene the Supreme Court's recent anti-segregation decision...
...Court has recognized, implementation of its ruling will be difficult. The mentality that bred segregation has not yet died. For legal decisions cannot eliminate apathetic, even hostile state legislatures. And they can only slowly conquer the fear that creates men like Benner C. Turner...
...Piper, was sung in English). But the audience politely brought the fine English cast back for eight curtain calls. Wrotem Il Tempo of Britten's score: "A type of anthology of modern musical taste." Corriere della Sera applauded Britten's "sinister castle of sounds," but found it "difficult to establish even approximately what the new opera is meant to signify...