Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeking to escape this dilemma; the University of Chicago has smashed the college curriculum into two separate parts. After devoting two years almost exclusively to the "little about a lot", the student is free as an upperclassman to delve into his favorite "lot about a little." It is upon a similar pattern that Harvard's area plan should work out. While turning over the Freshman and Sophomore years to basic and general courses may be criticised as a step backwards, still--as long as the preparatory school fails to provide the broad foundation necessary--the college must take upon itself...
...section most visibly marked with the committee's sweat was that on a farm program. Here the program committee hung on the two-horned dilemma that has gored every New Deal effort to make sense of farm aid-i) price-wrecking farm surpluses, 2) the ancient gap between the prices a farmer gets and the prices he pays...
...gave it. Pinched between his conservative and radical supporters, he reappointed two of the three untainted Radical members of his Cabinet, replaced the three scandal-smeared members with conservative Radicals of Duran's way of thinking, considered that he had found the best way out of his dilemma. Although South America's only Popular Front Government continued to exist, it had veered decidedly to the Right, and the Confederation of Chilean Workers issued a manifesto declaring that in the situation they saw the "thumbprints of Alessandri." The "Lion of Tarapacá" is living quietly in Santiago...
...more sharply than at any time since the war began, the Senate's action posed the dilemma of extreme isolationists. Against the vague fear that at some future time a loan to Finland might lead to credits that might lead to war, there loomed another possibility-that a Russian victory in Finland would lead to an attack on Sweden, to an eventual German-Russian revolutionary dominance of Scandinavia that would crush four of the world's democratic governments and so form a combination that no European power could resist. But such possibilities were not discussed in the Senate...