Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land Dilemma. In the midst of the blitz, Winston Churchill had heartened Britons with the promise that their ruined cities would rise "beautiful, resplendent, Phoenix-like from the ashes of the dead." Since then, the cities and towns had been busy turning hopes into blueprints. Before the House was the Government's proposal for translating the blueprints and Churchill's promises into buildings...
...Laborites were in a dilemma. As a party they were committed to a policy of land nationalization. Now they were asked to approve a bill which evaded the whole issue of nationalization, left the primary responsibility for planning in the hands of innumerable city, town and county authorities...
When the U.S. made its latest leap 1,200 miles west from Kwajalein, into Saipan, key to the Marianas, Shimada had to put up or shut up. Caught in an impossible dilemma, he made the worst decision possible: a compromise...
Forbes, who first became known for his performance in "The Flame" in London, has been seen on the American stage playing in "The Doctor's Dilemma" with Katherine Cornell and with Katina Paxinou of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" fame, in "Hedda Gabler...
...There is] the impression or the fear that there may not be, even for the peoples and nations as such, any alternative but this: a complete victory or complete destruction. When once this sharp dilemma has entered men's minds, its baneful influence is a stimulant toward prolonging the war. . . . Those who are under the domination of such feelings go on, as in a hypnotic sleep, through abysses of unspeakable sacrifice and constrain others to a war of extermination that drains their life blood. . . . This fear should give way to a well-founded expectation of honorable solutions; solutions that...