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Word: dilemma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Infidelity is a tiresome and out-of-joint job about some kind of moral dilemma, involving the death of a bicycle rider. The hero and heroine, obviously big stars in their country from the footage wasted on their faces, are man and mistress. There's a lot of claptrap about living in an age with too many symbols, returning to the old integrity of student days, etc. Of course at the end there comes the uncomfortably awaited Spanish Irony--the heroine is run off the road by the eternal bicycle rider. If you want to go to the seven thirty...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Death of Manolete | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Under fire from the panel of Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, Jeffrey E. Butler of Oxford University, and Oscar Handlin, professor of History, DuPlessis replied that outsiders are incapable of realizing the uniqueness of South Africa's dilemma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DuPlessis Maintains Segregation Only Solution for South Africans | 12/6/1958 | See Source »

...most important problem facing this college when it has to teach a student an elementary foreign language is a dilemma that is not Harvard's alone; it is the problem of every college in the country that teaches a foreign language. It is a simple matter of will...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Modern Language Teaching: Stagnation Since the War | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...inclined to agree that when the American public finds out who the great They is, upon whom all the jokes are played and by whom all decisions are made, the dilemma of our national neuroticism will be dissolved...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...model high Dudgeons, but one of the new low ones, which are frequently mistaken for Huffs, particularly when there is any fog about. I am quite sure of the facts in this matter, as I happened to be driving by in my 1958 Dilemma at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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