Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teams will race in Raven class sloops, which carry spinnakers. These boats are more difficult to handle than the dinghies used in most intercollegiate races and should test the skippers' ability to handle the added sail...
Professor Howe noted the decisions involved problems of federalism, and he felt that if the minority had won, "civil rights would be difficult to enforce." Freund called the majority opinion, "a check against bogus civil rights decisions...
...Since Radcliffe shares the Harvard Faculty, it is difficult for me to see how she can use her independence," he said. Administrative independence does not seem very valuable, he claimed, if its main purpose is to gain privileges for Annex students...
Bland, first string freshman hockey goalie, has filled the gap at the nets more than adequately. A player with outstanding reflexes, he has almost mastered the tricky hops and scorching line shots (clocked at 130 miles an hour) difficult for even the most experienced goal tender...
...absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses the double chorus as one more element of depth in the composition...