Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were also the numerous little volumes of verse; tangled, dry, pretentiously platitudinous, unnecessarily difficult, full of tags from Auden and Eliot...
...student finds himself in the difficult situation of making charitable contributions with money which he has not earned. If "give in proportion to income" were his rule, he would not give at all, and yet most student's feel that a donation of some sort, if only of token dimensions, should be made to the charities of the community in which their school is located...
...matter how hard the Mid-Western student works, he finds it difficult to overcome this fallacy concerning his fellow scholars...
...outside sources of crude had little choice. If they did not meet Sun's buying price, they would probably not be able to buy crude. In explanation of the increase, Sun's Vice President John Glenn (Jack) Pew* said that his company had "found it increasingly difficult to obtain crude oil. . [because] of ever-increasing premiums which are being paid ... by many of our competitors." But many oilmen disagreed when Pew added that "an increased price will prove an incentive for stimulating increased production" Crude was short because of high demand, lack of transportation and a shortage...
England had experienced that hideous novelty. It was difficult not to chance on Joyce's wavelength when one was tuning in to the English stations, and there was an arresting quality about his voice which made it a sacrifice not to go on listening. ... It seemed as if one had better hearken and take warning, when he suggested that the destiny of the people he had left in England was death, and the destiny of his new masters in Germany life and conquest, and that, therefore, his listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible...