Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened dramatizes Nixon's dilemma: he is by far the leading candidate for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination.* That nomination may be hardly worth having if the Administration fails to sell its record in the political market. But if Nixon jumps out and oversells, he might lose the good will of the only man who could deny him the nomination, Dwight Eisenhower himself...
...performer is on. Here is our dilemma-this I really don't know-is she ungracious or calculated...
...current attempt of Midwestern Republican Congressmen to get Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson fired from his job, the G.O.P. is faced with 1) a scandal, 2) a dilemma, and 3) a challenge...
...dilemma: the fact that Ezra Benson, in campaigning for reforms that are the most tentative steps toward correcting the scandal (e.g., lowering minimum price supports from 75% of parity to 60%), has become such a convenient political target that Midwestern Republicans would like to dump him before election time. Two of the dump-Benson Congressmen, Nebraska's A. L. (for Arthur Lewis) Miller and Phil Weaver, had the gall to go to the President last week to attack a member of his Cabinet. They argued that Benson will lose the Republicans 20 to 25 House seats and five Midwestern...
Bomb in August. At week's end Sukarno seemed to be treating his latest dilemma as airily as those of the past. He chucked schoolgirls under the chin, pursed his lips over the prophecies of his latest favorite soothsayer ("A great bomb will drop in August! There will be trouble everywhere"). His wife, Hartini, gave birth to a son at the presidential summer palace 35 miles south of Djakarta, making Sukarno a father for the seventh time. Because his own Nationalist Party was rapidly losing touch with the masses, Sukarno has leaned increasingly on the Communists. He admires their...