Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dilemma. Germany approached an ultimate crisis. As serpents encircled the classic victims of Laocoön (see cut, p. 25), so was Germany now enmeshed in all the currents and consequences of Naziism...
...mentioned for the job thus far have been Breckinridge Long and Dean Acheson. now Assistant Secretaries of State; Ambassador to Mexico George S. Messersmith; James C. Dunn, political relations adviser to Hull; and Wayne Coy, Assistant Director of the Budget. None of these would solve Franklin Roosevelt's dilemma. Under the present organization of the Department, no one could be a really successful Under Secretary...
...earns a good chunk of the money with which it buys U.S. goods by its worldwide shipping services. Thus, the U.S. cannot greatly expand exports to these countries if it deprives them of an important means of paying for them. Unless a way can be found out of this dilemma, the U.S. will find itself with a pool of idle merchant ships far beyond the modest 5,000,000 tons set out by A.M.M.I...
...Argentines are a proud and freedom-loving people who like to boast about their disregard of laws and restrictions and how they run their lives to suit themselves. But they are also great admirers of efficient government. Last week they wondered which horn of this dilemma they preferred...
...resentment was only the other side, and planned to cash it. Meanwhile, he did not blame the angry fans. He understood their emotion and sympathized with it. Between this warm feeling and the cold action he knew he had to take, Rickey came face to face with the horny dilemma. He says that during the Camilli hullabaloo he was tempted to make peace...