Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force and the government appealed to foreign powers for help? De Gaulle himself answered: "I could not consent to receive power from any source but the people, or at least its representatives." Top State Department officials formed a working consensus that 1) although Premier de Gaulle might be a difficult ally, 2) he would be preferable to another multiguided compromise government and infinitely preferable to a Communist-Socialist popular front...
...press-conference tribute to Charles de Gaulle: "I will say this: I happen to be one of those people that liked him." And within hours of De Gaulle's accession, the White House put out a statement that wrapped up the President's devout hopes for the difficult days ahead: "We are gratified that the French crisis is now being resolved. General de Gaulle has assumed heavy responsibilities at a critical juncture in French history. We look forward to the continuation of the intimate and friendly relations which have always characterized our long association with France...
This remarkably peaceful transfer of power was a tribute to an entire nation's controlled anxieties, to the sophistication of politicians skilled at maneuvering to the danger point but not beyond it, and to the correctness of the difficult man who asked France for vast powers...
...College of Cardinals, now down to 55 from its full complement of 70. Of the remaining 55, two have long been prevented by political conditions from fulfilling their functions (Cardinals Mindszenty and Stepinac, prisoners of Communism), one-Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski-has been seriously hampered by difficult communications, and another -Peking's Cardinal Tien-by ill health. And in all too many cases the crushing load of responsibility in Rome falls on such old men as 85-year-old Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi, whose responsibilities Cardinal Stritch was to have shared in running the church's missionary...
...difficult, sophisticated way to fly a jet plane off a short runway or no runway at all is to design it so it can stand on its tail like the Ryan Vertijet and zoom directly upward. The simple, brute-force way is to blast it into the air with rocket power. Last week the Air Force announced that the "zero-length" launch, done in the past with less advanced airplanes, has been accomplished with North American's supersonic F-100D fighter...