Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be perhaps too much to say that the British Socialists have ceased to believe in Socialism. But they have certainly abandoned it as an instrument or aim of government policy . . . [There is] a deeper dilemma which can only be escaped by a retreat along the whole Socialist front. It is simply that everybody-not just the well-to-do-is and feels overtaxed. The EGA has calculated that the taxes paid by ... 80% of the population . . . amount to 67 shillings per family per week, while their share of government welfare expenditures-food and housing subsidies, social insurance, free medical...
Aphorisms in the songs further demonstrate this spirit; Thomas Curtis' True Britton did "haste to the bottle and joyously sing," Joseph Baildon philosophized" Tis better to lie drunk than dead," and Thomas Arne's dilemma was "Which is the Properest Day to Drink...
...Mundt-Ferguson-Johnston omnibus is a loosely-drawn and heavy handed attempt to put restraints on organizations which fall into these Senators' amorphous categories. Tomorrow's editorial will discuss the theories behind this type of legislation and attempt to find a constructive way out of the present "subversive" dilemma...
Here was the old British dilemma: How to strengthen the concept of "Western community" without weakening the reality of Commonwealth? Auriol in a speech to Parliament said that the answer was a close "association of the military, economic and diplomatic policies ... of all those nations which . . . are ready to take part in the real organization of collective security...
...these proposals offers a complete answer to the financial dilemma of the universities, and administrators are still continuing their search for the elusive dollar. Tomorrow's editorial will evaluate the suggestions given so far, and discuss the long-range objectives of American higher education...