Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isolated individuals have a rather difficult decision to make each year when The Game rolls around. These men are the Harvard-educated Yale professors, and the few poor souls on the Harvard faculty who happened to have received their degrees from New Haven...
...blows to Wilson's hopes of equalling or bettering last year's 16-9 record is the loss of Bryant Danner, who is one a leave of absence. "Before we lost Danner," he says, "I would have said that this would be a difficult season; with his loss, it will be even more difficult...
...receiving military aid to refute this. Nor is a change in the form of government peculiar to underdeveloped countries. Rather, it is in an oversimplification to think of the political situation in a country receiving aid in the terms which he has in mind. It is not difficult to see that a country which receives only economic aid is free to divert a large part of its own resources towards increasing the size and effectiveness of its military establishment than would otherwise be possible for it to maintain. The specific nature and purpose of military aid makes it more honest...
...substitutions thoughtfully provided by various House committees are not really worthy of the same loyalty, financial or otherwise. Nevertheless, these "extras" have become so much a part of the System that it seems unfair to support them with voluntary dues. More than unfair, it is gradually becoming difficult and embarassing...
When the old man (Tracy) has fought the sea and the fish for three days and returns to his Cuban sea village, the narrator (also Tracy) tells those of us who can hear him that "the old man knew the depth of his tiredness." It is not difficult to see why Tracy is tired. His director, John Sturges, has insisted on everything, and allowed for nothing. He has Tracy running the gamut from the Hollywood equivalent of an El Grecian Christ figure, to the benign, twinkling-eyed mentor of an obnoxious little boy, who takes himself as seriously...