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Word: difficult (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the human condition and no reflection on the merits of my education. However, my refined ability to argue a thesis in five to seven pages, double-spaced, does me no good at all in even attempting to broach them. If anything my swollen rational capacities make it more difficult for me to find anything to believe in, any source of beautiful illogical inspiration...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: An Argument for Moral Education | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...most difficult and time consuming part was becoming American--I'm not gifted with accents or dialects, and I had to spend a lot of time trying to lose my Scottish accent. I also worked for six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. To begin with it was scary because I was working with people who had committed atrocious crimes-it was a high security place--but by the end of it I was fairly sad to leave...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An interview with actor Ewan Bremnar | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...would just try and fit in--which was difficult because everyone else was much older than...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Surfing the Web with Prof. Zittrain | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...secret that living in the commonwealth of Massachusetts does not always lend itself to spontaneity. Thanks to the ingenuity of the pious, not-so-fun Puritan founders of the Commonwealth, both residents and tourists looking for a full evening of after-hours festivities often find it difficult to fill their dance cards without planning ahead...

Author: By A.b. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Why So Blue? | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Vincent L. Dixon, the Republican city chair and a first-year contender in the race for city council, claimed that Triantafillou was made to appear difficult and argumentative by City Manager Robert Healy...

Author: By Rachel V. Zabarkes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Liberal Council Member Unseated in Cambridge Elections | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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