Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace had caught the armed forces in a manpower dilemma. Nonetheless, some European veterans-nobody knew how many-had to police Japan. There were several good reasons: 1) the number of divisions in the Pacific is relatively small, and many of them were badly mauled on Okinawa and in the Philippines; 2) sending nothing but green, untested troops might undo much of the good in occupation, might be risky for the men themselves; 3) it would be unfair to keep Pacific veterans in Japan indefinitely-most Pacific divisions (which will have to berY the early occupation burden) have seen more...
...Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Bayard T. Horton & coworkers point a way out of this miserable dilemma. Having tried it on 120 patients over three and a half years, they announced that a new derivative of ergot, dihydroergotamine, has all the virtues of Gynergen and almost none of its vices...
Probing the heart of the American educational dilemma, the University Committee, in its Report published yesterday, sees in the development of the high school a basic problem of democratic society...
Continental Dilemma. Stating the new policy was one thing; making it work would be another. Several sources reported last week that one of the secret Yalta agreements included a promise to allow Russia some 50% of all reparations. Russia had been busily practicing what the commission now preached, uprooting whole factories and moving them eastward by the train load. Could the Russian zone, partly stripped, actually be treated as "a single entity" with the British and U.S. areas, where no such confiscation had been planned? Would the Russians want to collect from the other zones as well, or would Moscow...
...Fitzgerald, with amazing fortitude, set out to do just that. "I never blame failure," he told his daughter Frances, "but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort." In The Last Tycoon he made a last, powerful effort both to create an objective character and to explain his own dilemma - that of a man torn between the "moneyed celebrity" of Hollywood and his ambition to do honest work. He had developed, says Dos Passos, "a real, grand style," and had reached "a firmly anchored ethical standard . . . something that American writing has been struggling towards for half a century." But, halfway...