Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate, it is apparent that the proposals so far advanced by both the Administration and the Democratic leadership lack imagination or a sense of urgency. It is difficult to argue that the condition of the economy necessitates large-scale public works projects, but it is clear that unemployment is a more pressing concern than anyone has so far admitted. If Secretary Mitchell's goal of "full employment"--unemployment of only three million--is to be realized, Washington needs to come up with more far-seeing responses than have yet developed...
Concern over using the Stadium rose when the Forum learned that the Stadium's upper bleachers would not be lighted for the night-time speech. This would make it very difficult for police to protect Castro from possible assassins concealing themselves in the bleachers...
...this year, especially in the pitching departments, as there are only three pitchers. Bill Cunningham pitched last year for the J.V.'s and Dave Larkin struck out 17 men Wednesday against Brandeis. Bob Stein is the third member of the pitching staff, but it is difficult to make any prediction about...
President Pusey has recently asserted that the job of the college teacher is "to awaken in the learner the resistless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning." It is difficult to do this in a lecture course; the Faculty has wisely realized that the best opportunity for awakening such a drive is in the close, personal contact between student and tutor found in a tutorial session, where the student is forced to think perceptively. But the Faculty has been curiously lax in extending the opportunity for such thinking to the non-Honors student...
...easy getting men into occupied territory," Katz says, "but Germany was difficult. There weren't many Germans who wanted help, but our principal assistance came from the German practice of putting captured men to work as slave labor in Nazi factories. The roads were full of such people after the Ruhr bombardment, and we were able to get people in under cover as wandering unemployeds...