Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annapolis man would never butter a whole piece of toast but would first break it into fragments. "I went to school at Andover," huffed Bogart indignantly. "Are you trying to tell me that Annapolis turns out better gentlemen than Phillips Academy?" Shooting stopped until Producer Kramer solved the dilemma by trimming the crusts off the toast and reducing it partially in size, thus satisfying both parties to the argument...
Government officers heard that a group of Foreign Legionnaires had taken a block of seats in order to break up the Soviet ballet's opening, and prudently decided to postpone the event. This gave them time to consider their dilemma: on the one hand, to cancel the spectacle would be diplomatically discourteous; on the other, it would be better to be inhospitable than to offer armed hospitality, with police inside the theater...
...Such Republicans as Nevada's Senator George Malone and North Dakota's Senator William Langer vote against the Administration as a matter of course. The President was able to muster only 14 Republican Senators on the key vote against the Bricker amendment. ¶ Musing on the Republican dilemma, a veteran Republican Senator, who is against renewal of reciprocal trade treaties, said last week: "Eisenhower is telling all of us to suddenly reverse our field and vote directly opposite to the way we've been voting for years-and getting re-elected." Then, with deep conviction, the Senator...
...Fainsod, professor of Government; "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao," by Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History; "Public Opinion in Soviet Russia," by Alex Inkeles, Senior Research Fellow in the Research Center and lecturer on Sociology; and two boks by Barrington Moore, Jr., "Soviet Politics, the Dilemma of Power," and "Terror and Progress, USSR." Moore is a lecturer on Sociology and a Senior Research Fellow in the Research Center...
This difficult problem has come about at the University for several reasons. Immediately after the war Harvard was in a religious condition that can be termed nothing less than a dilemma. On the graduate level the Divinity School was about to collapse. Phillips Brooks House--for better or for worse--had strayed far from its underlying religious principles. The head of Memorial Church, because of responsibility at the failing Divinity School, could not spend sufficient time at the Church. Most important, the religious complexion of the student body had changed radically...