Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clavieruebung in the ranks of the great musical collections. The ringers were generous enough to perform seven, the last in response to demands for an encore telephoned in during the intermission. It is hard to choose a favorite from among these miniature masterpieces, mainly because they are somewhat difficult to tell apart; the finest from an artistic point of view is the one entitled "Little Ivan sat in a Divan," which Tchaikowsky incorporated into the last movement of his Fourth Symphony...
...Skeels, who beat Jim Alsbaugh at 120 by 7 to 4. Pete Stanley, at 167, gained the remaining Crimson points in a draw with F & M's Dave Thomas. In the day's most exciting match, Stanley developed a floating rib during the second period. The injury made it difficult for him to breathe, but Stanley hung on and was ahead on a time advantage until the final seconds. Then the referee called the Crimson wrestler for stalling and gave Thomas a point and the draw...
...enlist the sympathy of Mr. Sam himself. Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...though to compensate France's poor for increased food costs they decreed a 5.5% raise in the minimum wage. And by the removal of import quotas on a wide list of products. France's manufacturers would be exposed to so much foreign competition that it would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these measures of "truth and severity" been proposed by anyone but De Gaulle, France would surely have been in for a vicious round of strikes, profiteering and social unrest. De Gaulle himself, despite his prestige, probably could not have dared subject them to parliamentary...
Degrees of Success. Since the Russians do not call their shots before they fire, Lunik may have been designed for several degrees of success. The most difficult would be to go into orbit around the moon, as the U.S. Air Force hoped to do with Pioneer I. But this stunt requires a small rocket to nudge the final stage into capture by the moon's gravitational field, and the Russians have not mentioned any such item. Next degree of success would be to pass around the moon and return to earth. If the Russians were trying to do this...