Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time of death presents another dilemma, Brickley continued. The dead man's waterproof wristwatch read 7:15 o'clock, but "I'm hanged if I can say whether that means A.M. or P.M.," the Examiner observed. Harmon's four associates from Leverett were also unable to assert whether he wound his watch in the morning or evening...
Whether to endure one lecturer's passion for reciting dates, or to be clubbed over the head with the personal opinions of another-this is the classic dilemma of History students in search of a good course. Page one of any book on Education says that this should not be so, but the teaching of history's mazes is understandably jammed with recounters of obscure events, and with lecturers who ride private hobby horses down the long sweep of History. That Professor Crane Brinton has synthesized rather than compromised these extremes is a viewpoint that surprising numbers of otherwise unwarlike...
Their stated dilemma : if they entered a burning building, they would be accused of theft; if they did not, they would be accused of negligence and bribery...
...Horned Dilemma. Near Freeport, Ill., Carnation Imperial Inka Premier, a $5,000 prize bull, roared in anguish and gradually lost 400 pounds, while his owner pottered over him with two Army-type mine detectors, trying to find out which of the four stomachs (normal for bulls) contained a piece of metal the champ had swallowed...
Washout. For President Miguel Aleman, the troubles posed a political dilemma. Whatever his lack of regard for the oldtime bosses, he still needed their support. Besides, he could not let the rightists make political hay. Firmness in the oil workers' strike (TIME, Dec. 30) had paid off; firmness in a political crisis like that at Oaxaca might pay dividends also...