Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking virgin. She turns out to be as eager to fall in love as he is, but she is far more direct and decisive. Antonio is troubled: How could the pure madonna of his fantasy tolerate his touching her? He is still trying to come to terms with this conundrum when Maria's rich parents callously separate the lovers. Antonio suffers extravagantly, even as he falls into the arms of the first promiscuous girl he meets...
...team of Poonies, having combed Cambridge landmarks and badgered merchants for clues, deciphered the final conundrum. By 2:28, Lampoon President La Farge was undressing at pool's edge, and in another minute was paddling towards the pool's littoral regions with Ibis in a fireman's carry...
...only thing certain about the current draft conundrum is who must resolve it. Members of the House Armed Services Committee have told Harvard officials that Congress has "tossed the ball" to the President. The President must come to a decision...
...affair becomes the scandal of Whitehall, and Bogarde eventually slinks back to Oxford in disgrace. A year later, though, the old boys need him again and all is forgiven. Bogarde and York rejoin forces-he mechanically holding the solution to the Reds' most recent conundrum in his mind, she tenderly holding their illegitimate son in her arms...
...identity problem (again) is posed here more as a conundrum than a crisis. Cornelius Yamb is hired by a gangster syndicate to track down a nearmythical youth named Bruno, heir to a fabulous fortune. The quest leads him to a remote Canadian village, where to his surprise he is welcomed as Conrad...