Word: dilemma
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Dominions' Dilemma. The War Cabinet sits in London; it is primarily responsible to the British Parliament; and up to now it has consisted largely of Winston Churchill (with whom eight other members of the full British Cabinet make up the War Cabinet). A keystone of the Commonwealth system is that the four Dominions-Australia, Canada, New Zealand. South Africa-are not responsible to the British Parliament. Yet under the present system the War Cabinet must, and does, bear the Empire's burden of decision in World...
...merchant is therefore faced with his old dilemma of low inventories v. forward buying. Most N.R.D.G.A. men last week solved it strictly along class lines. Families with incomes under $3,000, they knew, buy two-thirds of all merchandise sold; these families have escaped heavy taxation so far, and are not yet stocked up to the new level of their war incomes...
...Dilemma. In Yonkers, N.Y., a raid-nervous mother phoned the State Conservation Department, summoned a game warden, asked him what games her children ought to play during air raids...
Darkness at Noon ($2), Arthur Koestler's coldly incandescent novel about the ultimate moral dilemma of Russian purgers and purged...
...appears to those of us who have given the greater part of the last year to civilian defense and other Governmental agencies in preparing this country for the dilemma which now confronts us that the large numbers of healthy young men in our universities are a legitimate pool from which blood may be obtained. Blood will only be drawn in 500 cc., i.e. 1 pint, lots from individuals who are healthy and in whom such a withdrawal would leave-no deleterious effects. It is required that mature minors (that is individuals under 21) bring with them the written consent...