Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought your article gave a fair and objective coverage of a situation that is difficult to report without taking sides; it was bipartisan and showed how reasoning and sense disappeared when an irresistible force (Walter Reuther) met an immovable object (Herbert Kohler...
...There are ways that do not lead to such dead ends for the scientist, but they are difficult ways. One is the way of a Conant or a Killian: deliberately to enter into the experiences and to assume the responsibilities and the disciplines that have to do with the art of human relations. The product of this dual discipline, in the scientist-statesman, can be one of our most valuable public servants in times like this. "For those who do not have a genius for the double task, there is another choice. This is simply to put their truth...
Democratic Heresy. His first pastorate, in 1925, was the Church of the Redeemer in Yonkers, just north of Manhattan. Fry remembers his four years there as "wonderful, difficult years"; his parishioners remember him as the young man who increased the congregation from 200 to 400. In the choir he found "the first and only girl I was ever attracted to-I suppose because she was a strange, offish person, too. She sang soprano solos, was quiet, not especially pretty, and she was going with another fellow at the time. We would go to the opera together. I remember asking permission...
...stride on Hallmark with his adaptations of Cradle Song and The Lark. But Little Moon, exuberantly greeted by most U.S. TV critics last week, seemed to mark a big upturn in Costigan's career. In it he grappled compassionately with "those forces in life that make it difficult or impossible," qualified as the kind of writer once described by Pascal in a line that Costigan likes to quote: ''I most admire those writers who tell with tears in their eyes what men do to other...
Even at the height of his "cantankerousness" (Graves's own word for his special quality), he writes with clarity, charm and wit. The collection includes several stories so funny that it is difficult to believe they first appeared in Punch...