Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third day the amazing old man stood up on his good leg for a few seconds and lightheartedly wiggled the injured one. Next day he presented his doctor with a dilemma: "It will do you no good if I get over this," said Shaw. "A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care." When their patient began to suffer from the recurrence of an old kidney ailment, the worried doctors issued a few "toned down" bulletins on his condition. This week he seemed as perky as ever, offered another...
...Formosa Dilemma...
...Formosa Dilemma...
Once, parents would have had no choice but to accept this verdict and await the worst. But modern medical science presented the Haires with a cruel dilemma. They might, said the doctors, have one of Becky's eyes removed to make sure that she was suffering from cancer of the optic nerve, which might then be arrested. The second eye might have to be removed later. The alternative: Becky's eyes might be treated with X rays and radium. The doctors believed that she would have a 60% chance to recover after surgery, only 35% after radiation...
...minimum that would be needed just to perform "an emergency, one-shot mission," agreed to an Army of 677,000 because, he said, he recognized the limits of what a nation could spend for security "without imperiling its economic survival." His words illustrated the country's dilemma...