Word: easier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despairing equally of having done too much and not enough. Though partisan, he was in a sense not political; he commanded the respect of colleagues of all persuasions whatever their opposition to his views. In no small measure the Harvard crisis was moderated and the search for solutions made easier by the special trust even his opponents--many of them close to him personally--respond in him and his integrity...
...Harvard research program on technology and society, believes that an important preface to that goal is already under way. "Our society," he argues, "is coming to a deliberate decision to understand and control technology to good social purpose." Perhaps, but major obstacles clearly remain. Going to the moon is easier-and far less costly-than rebuilding American cities and uplifting the disinherited. There is no obvious prod of international competition, no single challenge perceived and response desired by a cohesive majority...
...pain, the courtroom was probably the easier ordeal. Arriving 25 minutes before the 9 a.m. trial was to begin, Kennedy, accompanied by his wife Joan and his brother-in-law Stephen Smith, looked like a ruined man, the strain clearly showing in his drawn face. When the clerk asked for his plea, the Senator softly replied, "Guilty," then, after a second, "Guilty," in a louder voice that all the reporters and onlookers who crowded the 1840-vintage courtroom could hear. He uttered no other word during the nine minutes the proceedings lasted...
...Credit evaporated, investor buying power disappeared, and stocks collapsed. This year the money supply has expanded at a modest annual rate of about 21% - just enough, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin hopes, to accomplish "disinflation without deflation." There is no sign that the FRB will soon make money any easier...
Racism was never as extreme in Cuba as here, though, so the problem is somewhat easier. And I get the impression that there still hasn't been a complete elimination; for example, some people still frown on mixed marriages...