Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dilemma for Doctors...
Last week, faced with a harrowing but not uncommon dilemma, Arnold Pair said: "I'm against the operation. My mind could be changed if somebody could convince me Johnny will live after this operation, but no one will say for sure that he'll come through. The way I figure it, the poor kid may as well enjoy to the fullest the time he has left. I say, let him see while he can." But before reaching a final decision, Pair consulted his minister and sought guidance in prayer...
...could go no further. Not the least charming thing about this book is that Grace Hegger Lewis seems utterly unconscious of how irritating a good woman can be. Few will grudge her right to say the last word because she has said it gracefully; yet the traditional artist-wife dilemma intrudes through the narrative. Gracie wanted a home and Lewis wanted anything...
...actress, painter and poetess, whose 1955 volume, Love Poems, was dedicated "For S and the Search"; and the book's presumed dedicatee, Sidney Lumet, 32, tenement-raised onetime Broadway actor, horn-rimmed director of TV (You Are There), cinema (Twelve Angry Men) and stage (The Doctor's Dilemma); she for the third time, he for the second (his first: Cinemactress Rita Gam); in Manhattan...
Clare Luce was quick to see that she had a dilemma to face. If the news became public, there would be an inevitable headline hue. In this ticklish situation the secret was born. CIA and embassy officials quietly went to work. U.S. and Italian employees at the villa and the embassy were quickly investigated. No individual who had any close contact with the ambassador seemed even remotely a suspect...