Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonsense Is Not Enough. Britons could still laugh with Beachcomber. Newspapers seriously warned Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Government that it was facing a people with a very short temper. For Britons confronted a dilemma. The war was nearing its end and they wanted an end to wartime restrictions. But wartime restrictions had a bearing on peacetime security. Britons wanted security without interference. Whether or not the People's Plan, currently being plugged by Lord Beaverbrook's Express (see PRESS), reflected their mood, they were also all for the Beveridge Plan...
...Washington last week one White House adviser admitted that the wage dilemma must be faced before election. Then he said: "Christ! Why does anyone ever want to be President...
From the trickles of information, ob servers could see that the real problem at Dumbarton Oaks is a question that only the U.S. people can answer for themselves. This question, always fundamental in the American dilemma over foreign policy: Are Americans now prepared to commit the U.S. to use force at the orders of an international agency without waiting for a specific declaration of war by Congress...
...embodied their great tradition and their desperate dilemma was the man who indicted Yorck von Wartenburg and his seven gallows-mates for treason against the Third Reich and conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler-Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt...
...attained the delicate, tough clarity of Forster's novel. Nor did any other English novelist, writing of India, possess Forster's unique talent -that of keeping his characters, their good & bad intentions, their hopes, fears and antagonisms, in a state of suspension so that their dilemma is timeless yet forever timely. No one who wanted to understand that great problem could afford to miss the reprint of Forster's novel...