Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no change in U.S. foreign policy, he said, referring to the congressional squabbling (see above). There was a dilemma, he added, between the great need for as full and as quick public information as possible, and the equally great need for a certain amount of privacy and calm. He remembered once talking about this in a lecture under the heading of "The Bureaucrat's Dilemma, or Why Diplomats Become Dipsomaniacs...
...Korean Dilemma...
TIME, Jan. 10, implies that romance was an easy road to the U.S. for foreign spouses [but] neglects to mention the dilemma of Korean wives of American personnel. The Korean national, although his nation is recognized by the U.S., is not eligible to reside in the U.S. as a permanent alien resident, nor dare he hope to achieve American citizenship, because the Korean is an Oriental and is subject to the Oriental Exclusion...
...puts Robert Taylor to work at one of Hollywood's most dog-eared formulas: U.S. Government agent falls for girl, finds she is innocent wife (or sister) of crook he is out to get. It always winds up with the hero facing both guns and a moral dilemma...
...Bribe, dame and dilemma are beautifully embodied (but hardly acted) by Ava Gardner, wife of a derelict U.S. flyer (John Hodiak). When not hung over from bad rum and alleged combat fatigue, Hodiak is busy smuggling airplane engines to Central America with the help of a suave mastermind (Vincent Price) and a broken-down fingerman (Charles Laughton). Fed-Man Taylor finally convinces himself, with some hard-breathing monologuing, that Ava is innocent but deeply implicated. So why not sell out on his job and collect on his love-as well as on Laughton's $12,000 in hush money...