Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed this statement with his own answer to "this strange conundrum. . . . It is because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast area they control and the civilization of the West. The Russian people must not see what goes on outside, and the world must not see what goes on inside the Soviet domain...
...annual instructors, and twenty-four full and part time teaching fellows. The Economics faculty has been enlarged to the limits of availability, but besides increased teaching burdens, staff time formerly devoted to tutorial has been sapped away by other interests, such as General Education and Area Studies. The financial conundrum is not lacking either: the pressure of steadily increasing costs throughout the University threatens a limit to the size of a staff which the department could support...
...sine we do no know whether Moscow's intentions are honorable or otherwise, how can we say whether American foreign policy should be one of toughness or of compromise? We cannot; and therefore the goal of an effective foreign policy necessarily becomes the solution of this perplexing conundrum...
...course the supreme conundrum of our time. We ask it in Manchuria . . . eastern Europe . . . Italy . . . Iran . . . Tripolitania . . . the Baltic and the Balkans . . . Poland . . . Canada . . . Japan. We can ask it sometimes even in connection with events in our own United States...