Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for the breakup of the Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Dec. 22). He made it clear to the nation that there is little hope in the immediate future of reaching a settlement with Russia on peace terms in Europe. Coldly and cautiously, George Marshall warned of long and difficult months ahead. Said...
...packed crowd cheered the Monsignor's final words-the message of Cardinal Schuster himself, who sat a few feet away tightly clasping his cross: "It is the duty of every right-thinking man to support the Government in its difficult struggle. . . . Let the Milanese be worthy followers of their patron St. Ambrose. May St. Ambrose protect Milan...
...greatest playmaking centers ever to wear skates, was one of the first coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five-man defense the split second that a scoring drive begins to peter out. He is frank to admit: "I'd prefer playing the old game, but I like watching...
Below God's platform stood a second, wider one, representing the earth, and the scenes enacted there were surprising not for their grandeur but for their truth to human nature. In one version, the shepherds were three Apennine comics: Nencio, Bobbi and Randello. Nencio inclined to be difficult; he refused to go in search of the Child until after breakfast. The shepherds offered their cloaks to the Madonna for blankets, begging her not to be offended by the goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much...
...Anglo-American zone reaches only to 35% of the 1938 level. From the Soviet zone of Germany, current reparations deliveries are taking place and the level of industry there has already reached 52% of the 1938 level . . . although conditions there for the rehabilitation of industry are more difficult. ... It follows that reparations deliveries, far from hindering the rehabilitation of industry, facilitate this rehabilitation...