Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold Dewey Smith, for seven years the hardworking, $10,000-a-year Director of the U.S. Budget, who had kept tabs on $400,000,000,000 of Government spending, resolved to do something about his own financial dilemma...
Every afternoon, millions of U.S. youngsters tune in a radio program that begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...
Doctors' Dilemma. In Colorado, at Buckley Field Station Hospital, Staff Sergeant Othal E. Chronic was down with chronic malaria...
Before the public can be expected to exert its force of opinion, it wants to know who is being unreasonable, what steps can be taken to resolve the dilemma, how to get the coal dug and on fire...
Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine