Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This dilemma however, is no just example of how the new seating system will work out. For the rest of the season, ticket applications must be plenty in at least 17 days before the game. This will give the HAA plenty of time to examine applications by use of the check-off list...
...housing dilemma, supposedly solved by careful preparations last spring, was caused, Watson said...
...felt the same? In Warsaw the jittery Yugoslav Embassy had received a flood of congratulatory telegrams-unsigned. Good students of history, the men of the Kremlin must have heard other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian and not just a Kremlin stooge. Its peril lay in the fact that guerrilla-wise Tito knew this...
...Custard Principle. Ventre hit a deep strain in Spectator readers. But would his philosophy work? Wrote one: "Kick the cat, snap asunder the shanking mashie . . . show resistentia that you will stand no nonsense. But this is bad for the blod pressure . . . Ventre gives no guide in this dilemma." Wrote another: man might still "divide, deceive and sometimes rule. A lawn perishing from drought may be saved by its owner's . . . leaving a valuable book outdoors. By a variation of this principle, the grim persistence of watched pots in not boiling can be harnessed to prevent the ruin...
...steel and many another industry. But short of more specific orders from FTC, the decision would come hard. To many industrialists it seemed that dropping the basing-points system-and using the alternative of discounts to meet competition-could cause as much trouble as holding on to them. The dilemma had been neatly, if inadvertently, pointed up by the Supreme Court itself...