Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crisis (M-G-M). What should a skilled U.S. brain surgeon do if he is the only man who can save the life of a hated foreign dictator? After posing the doctor's dilemma and making it count for some good scenes, Writer-Director Richard...
...Smyth believes that Nazi contempt for intellectual freedom strangled German science and through it German technology. He suspects that Russian dogmatism will do the same. "Some of the things," he warns, "that happened in Germany and are happening in Russia could happen here . . . We are in a dilemma that . . . can be simply stated by the questions: How much should we talk? or, How much talk should be permitted...
...member of the Atomic Energy Commission, I am daily confronted by this dilemma . . . The best thing we can do is to balance the advantages of revealing information to our own people against the dangers of giving that information to a potential enemy...
...Pert Dilemma...
...speech and behavior, saucy, cheeky and malapert." After that the S.O.E.D. proclaims that pert "may be used as a vague expression of disfavor." Comes now, "bold," followed by "esp. in a bad sense" and after that "audacious, lively, bright, sprightly, in good spirits, or jolly." . . . . . You comprehend my dilemma? I don't know whether to send you flowers, three additional subscriptions, or call my lawyers...