Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer as much lung cancer...
...surprisingly, the N.A.A.C.P. is appealing to the state's highest court. It is also working on other test cases, and is determined if necessary to give the Supreme Court a crack at California's constitutional conundrum...
Like the Japanese original, the American remake weaves four differing versions of a crime into a philosophical conundrum about the nature of truth. While waiting out a thunderstorm at a desolate western whistlestop, three men fall to reminiscing about all the sex and sinnin' that came out at a badman's trial for murder. Seems a Southern dandy (Laurence Harvey) and his wife (Claire Bloom) had been lured into a woodsy glen by a notorious Mexican bandit (Newman), who bound the husband to a tree and then raped the wife. Later, the husband was found dead...
...fashionable syndrome of despair. He believed in no hereafter, but he accepted death as a just price for the gift of life. He is the voice of all whose worship goes to no Creator but to Creation itself. When he came to write his will, Rilke included a lyrical conundrum in which life and death became one in the symbol of the rose, whose loveliness contains nothing...
Wilde Theories. T. T. is understood to be Thomas Thorpe, Shakespeare's publisher. But who is W. H.? Encountering this conundrum, scholarly parties have scattered like quail. Some insisted that the poems were not written to Southampton but to William Herbert (W. H.), the Earl of Pembroke. Others pointed out that the initials of Southampton's given name, Henry Wriothesley (rhymes with grizzly), come out W. H. when reversed. Most ingenious of all was Oscar Wilde's theory. For reasons best known to himself, Wilde invented a homosexual figure called Will Hughes, by whom, he stoutly asserted...