Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio manufacturing has recently looked like the first U.S. consumer industry to take the guns-v.-butter dilemma in its stride. Although it faced a 75% cut in its normal business and already felt the metals shortage, Bond P. Geddes, executive vice president of the Radio Manufacturers Association, last fortnight said the industry had "no squawks." But last week he was squawking as hard as the rest...
Last week the church fathers prepared to call another meeting to consider their dilemma...
...last week the German people had won all the war they wanted to win. But if they tried to overthrow the dictatorship, they would lose the war. And if they won the war under the dictatorship, they could not then get rid of it. In this dilemma, the German people were numb. And now they would apparently have to fight the U.S., too. They still had one hope about the war: to live through...
Franklin Roosevelt did little to resolve this emotional dilemma for his fellow citizens-even for Herbert Hoover. In the same speech the ex-President paid an astonishing if ambiguous tribute to his successor...
...week's beginning the dilemma was deep. The Cabinet met, disbanded, met again, finally half-promised to issue "a statement manifesting Japan's firm attitude." The statement, according to the official news agency, would stress two things: Japan's devotion to peace, her determination to continue with her oft-sidetracked New Order in East Asia...