Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the performance's distinction came from the conductor, Elliott Forbes, who seemed in control of every moment. His largeness of conception, together with a scrupulous attention to shaping detail proved equal to the difficult combination of subtlety and scope that this work presents...
...long standing of shakedowns and violence in the teamsters, the members are not as much surprised as annoyed. They have tended to line up behind the leaders who brought them through the depression and crises of organization, and the employers who have found the teamsters a solid if difficult union with which to do business have not moved for a revolution which might bring in the unpredictable. The little businessmen who have been hit by the thuggery and extortion which comes so easily into a craft union like the teamsters are almost powerless to do anything...
When this study was commissioned five years ago, many people felt that academic freedom meant 'civil liberties for professors.' In those difficult days, before the McCarthy censure and the 1954 elections, many liberals saw the Fund as one of their few wealthy friends. They felt that its funds should not be wasted on the collection of statistics when more pressing problems of human rights demanded redress...
Yale also threatens to be a difficult, though not insurmountable, obstacle, having beaten Dartmouth 11 to 0. Eddie Jeremiah, Dartmouth varsity coach, observed, "This is the finest Yale team I've seen in a long time...
...differences in the educational structure of the two universities makes planning such an exchange difficult, remarked Pipes. "No attempt is made at Leningrad to broaden students; instead they have five years of disciplined well-defined centralization," he added...