Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the question of whether or not he will reside in the House is not yet definite, Lattimore has definitely accepted an invitation to speak here Dec. 11. His speech on the "Far Eastern Dilemma" will be sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Council...
...ceilings and walls" in churches where his father preached. Working with several of the common themes of medieval art (the Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted "to express the modern dilemma" in the form of a medieval morality play-a tall order which he is seldom able to fill. The Gothic spirit had the natural beauty and mysteriousness of a growing thing. Bergman's Gothicisms, on the contrary, are as artificial and complex as paper roses, and spiritually they have...
...have to score, and herein lies the varsity's continual dilemma. The Crimson, with its quantity of good linemen, has only tallied six times in three Ivy League games and has maintained only a slightly better record in non-League action. Against Penn, both of the varsity's goals were scored by Roger Tuckerman in the first four minutes of the first quarter and for the next 56 minutes of play, the Crimson was unable to penetrate the Quakers' strong defense...
Since an estimated 80% of the 136 Majlis members would be affected by the new law, Deputies had the choice of resigning their seats or giving up their cut. Their dilemma: if they resign, they will no longer have any value to the contractors, who hired them solely because of their chance to influence contracts...
...great Gygian load, the excrescence of the social organism of Concord, will be there and it certainly can't be wished away. The dilemma arises: should the citizens unload their perpetual clutter within the sight and smell of their progeny, making them conscious early of the great and ineluctable junk that fills the world? Or should the youth be saved, and instead men's trash fill smooth the rugged face of old New England tradition...