Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have carried this abscess too far," declared Habib Bourguiba. "Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous." In an interview with New York Times Correspondent Thomas Brady, Bourguiba expanded: "At the moment of a revolution there is no question of setting up a democracy like that in America. If they accuse me of dictatorship, I accept. I am creating a nation. Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeria-until the nation becomes homogeneous...
...bidding. The 1929 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica warned that contract bridge, then in its infancy, was "not a good game for the club cardroom" because "coordination between two partners is very necessary" and "not always easily obtained." Nearly all experts agree that bidding is the really important and difficult part of bridge. And even Goren's bitterest enemies in the cutthroat world of professional bridge admit that he is an alltime great bidder...
Sculptor Milles began what turned out to be his last work in Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1950, finished five years later in Rome, called it "the most difficult statue I have made." Milles early turned down the suggested subject for the memorial, a figure of the Good Samaritan, in favor of St. Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give...
...will have to be in a new idiom-Four Quartets brought something to an end." Possibly "abstract prose." Possibly another play "which would be completely successful theatrically and give the highest possible quotient of poetry." Smilingly he added: "That's aiming at Shakespeare under different and more difficult conditions...
VOICE: "Hard sell, soft sell, what shall it be? Hello, friend, this is Nathan Marsh Pusey, President of Harvard, with a reminder that American colleges will face difficult times in the years ahead. Help the college of your choice by contributing your dollars. American education and Harvard thanks...