Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer a program is kept alive the more costly it gets, and the more money put into it the more difficult it is to kill-thanks to pressure from its partisans, from affected industry, from Congressmen. Items...
...seemed to have something to do with his daily custom of eating grapefruit. But some citizens of his home town, Uvalde, Texas, suspect that Garner did not really give up his cigars and whisky last year, as he had dourly announced. No cigars, maybe, but it was quite difficult to picture durable Bourbonman Garner not hoisting one small nip to "strike a blow for liberty" once in a while...
...solid-fuel rocket, too, is simple and vastly promising-but difficult. Chief problem is to get the fuel to burn dependably in such a way as to provide a precalculated, controllable thrust. In the liquid rocket this is done by an intricate system of gas generators, pumps, valves, turbines and tubing. But this advantage is also a source of trouble, because failure of one or more of these intricate parts is the usual reason for the frequent liquid-rocket misfires...
Whatever the virtues of Bruce Mcintyre, Larry Repsher, Roy Williams and the others, Boulris is going to awfully difficult to replace. Cullen and Halaby will be missed...
...Lamont, as operated under its current policies, is not sufficient to meet undergraduate needs. During Reading and Examination periods especially, seats are difficult to locate and books even more difficult to obtain, mostly due to the inadequate reserve book system...