Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council's dilemma stems from the fact that while the C.C.A. is not sure it wants Atkinson back, neither it nor the Independents can agree on a successor...
...first John D. Rockefeller had to admit that he was worrying himself "almost to a nervous breakdown." So many charities were appealing to him for help that he hardly knew which way to turn. He finally got the answer to his dilemma after he met Frederick T. Gates, who, as executive secretary of the American Baptist Education Society, had helped persuade him to finance the founding of the University of Chicago...
More even than it suffers from being dieted to fit the stage, Point of No Return is hurt by a want of the book's wry irony, a failure to pose the dilemma that agitates Marquand himself quite as much as any other U.S. male. The play does not sufficiently cut two ways because Charles never seems sufficiently pulled two ways, never really seems involved in a fight against a job, only in a fierce struggle for one. And -a touch not in the book-if Charles's turndown of a fancy country-club bid is meant...
...felt that he had to reveal the possible importance of the work they were doing. He could not do this through the usual medical channels because the job was far from finished and, anyway, medical journals would have rejected reports on a "secret remedy." Dr. Ivy took his dilemma by the horns, told a press conference about Krebiozen, and started a first-class foofaraw (TIME, April...
This statement seems typical of the city administration's disinterest in the University's over-night parking problem. Through the existing dilemma has been under "discussion" at City Hall for the past five weeks, students' cars continue to be ticketed and even towed away for illegal parking, when no legal spaces exist. Some officials, nevertheless, are "altting on" the only constructive measure which has been proposed in the last year to alleviate the overcrowded conditions...