Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Luigi G. Jacchia, research associate at the observatory, described the relative freedom with which unskilled workers in the Soviet Union can move to different jobs and different cities. He added, however, that housing and job shortages do make such movement difficult, and that some government supervision is exercised...
...attention in the hope that something might be done to alleviate it. Perhaps a stronger commitment might be obtained from those landlords who request that their names be placed on the list declaring in a stronger, firmer way that they do not discriminate, so that it would be more difficult for them to go back on their word...
...final race, the light-weights had to win four other races, almost all of them difficult, against some of the best American and English crews who didn't have to maintain a 150-pound average...
Revenge perhaps could be called the reason for victory in the second race. In 1937, the only previous time when Harvard was invited to compete, Kent School eliminated its entrant. This time, the results were reversed, and the lightweights defeated Kent in one of the most difficult races of the week. Even a London newspaper called the race "the best in the regatta so far," and the extra weight of the prep schoolers almost brought victory. Harvard, however, finished in front by two-thirds of a length in 6 minutes, 58 seconds, the first Thames Cup trial...
Mornings are difficult--what with people surging hither and yon in their daily occupations, the assaults of the shoe-shine boys, the little league, the baby carriage brigade and the woman shoppers; the subterranean rumble of the subway, the distant cacophony of bells, the mingled shouts of children and clash of pin-ball machines. Saddened (perhaps by the morning's news or the "No Loitering" sign), Harold sometimes sits at the corner table by the window and counts green book bags passing by or reads Kafka or sublimates with secretaries on their way to work...