Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Chinese who think not in partisan terms, the internal deadlock that persists in China today presents a dilemma. They are seriously aware of the shortcomings and weaknesses of their present Government: its wide spread corruption, its lack of initiative, and its reluctance to change of its own accord; its tendency to look back into China's past glory for consolation, and its general mental attitude that may be an unfortunate reflection, of China's physical blockade. On the other hand they are the last persons to have any illusion of the Communists being angels of democracy...
Negroes are coming to realize that the Negro dilemma is not confined to the South, that the old Negro idea of Northern freedom is a "myth." Since Pearl Harbor they have watched Army and Navy segregation policies carry Jim Crowism into towns and villages in which it had never existed before. "Democracy to many," concludes Sterling A. Brown, "seems to be symbolized by this message ... on a bus in South Carolina: 'If the peoples of this country's races do not pull together, Victory is lost. ... Be patriotic. Avoid friction. White passengers will be seated from front...
Harry Truman arrived in New Orleans and started campaigning before a roomful of servicemen's wives, each of whom had a baby in her arms. Confronted with a practical politician's dilemma-to kiss or not to kiss-he escaped neatly by explaining that he had a cold. Back in his hotel room he added another reason, "I might have dropped one." The nominee's bronchial tubes enriched the conversation further during his stay. When Andrew Jackson Higgins, famed boatbuilder, asked after his health, Truman said, "I've just got the heaves, Andrew. Have a chair...
...stop this migration-but it might also saddle the West with huge relief bills, if a postwar slump comes. Yet, if workers drift back East, the West may lose juicy civilian orders because it has no manpower to fill them. Western businessmen have found no way to straddle this dilemma...
...week's end, the Army was still struggling with its dilemma. Until it comes up with an answer, Negroes will continue to be sent to Camp Butner, N.C., where all ground troops, white & Negro, went for redistribution before hotel centers were organized...