Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British also returned to London reassured by the atmosphere of the French government, concluding that this change was well worth the price of a more difficult and demanding ally...
Press censorship will continue, he added, because "the problem is extraordinarily difficult, and a satisfactory solution has not been found." Addressing himself to Portugal's workers, among the worst paid in Western Europe, Salazar warned: "Strikes are a crime. We are obliged to handle them with extreme harshness, although with bleeding heart...
...blackboard was scribbled with equations-not only for the benefit of the scientists but for the hapless interpreters and stenographers. Said one interpreter: "You just can't imagine how difficult it is to break down linguistic barriers between Nobel prizewinners in physics...
...prophet is "one who foresees events." Globe's editors seem to have taken great care to snip out words that might enlarge children's minds-even the slow-learning children at whom such books are aimed. In the cut-down version of one novel, the not-too-difficult word dromedary is thrown out for the easier camel-sparing young readers the trouble of adding a new name to the beasts in their mental menageries...
With Open Eyes. Marmer began his experiments by hypnotizing a 13-year-old boy, found that he withstood the rigors of a heart operation (to enlarge a pulmonary valve narrowed at its base), and recovered without complaining of pain. Then Marmer moved on to a more difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their...