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Word: dilemma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WANTED some shots of Tommy on horseback surveying the snowscape after Eleanora's death. Driving there, Tim and Eric talked a little about possible solutions to the jeep dilemma, but, after a few minutes, the only noise in the car was the low, static-filled sound of the radio. Outside it was gloomy. The beauty of the day was transformed...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Father Maitland's dilemma is intricately worked out like a fine, stout piece of convent lace. In the process, the author shows himself as a dealer in the comedy of the spirit far different from Graham Greene's celebrated psychodramas of doubt, doom and-damnation. His scenes are as funny as J. F. Powers', but without their cozy in-joke comicality. Keneally's humor is white, not black-a blessed relief. His book is infused with a pawky clerical awareness that human life, though sometimes capable of holiness, is more often merely funny. Thus perceptively armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spoiled Priest's Tale | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

What was McCann's good luck turned out to be a dilemma that took the Athletic Departments of Harvard and Yale over three weeks to solve...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: A Little Bit of Lip | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

...aimed at the same middle-class consumers who now buy medical insurance through private agencies. The similarity is no accident; Pollack says that the plan was deliberately contrived to work within the existing private carriers. But some critics have charged that this plan really doesn't solve the distribution dilemma: it offers better service to America's insurance-buying suburbanites, but it seems to turn down the urban an rural who can never scrape together insurance premium payments...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: American Medicine Heading for Collapse. . . | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

Denver's high-scoring line of center Tom Miller and wings George Morrison and Don Thiessen will present the biggest defensive dilemma for the Crimson tonight. The trio produced 62 of D.U.'s 140 goals in regular season play, and are the team's top three scorers...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Skaters Test Powerhouse Denver in NCAA's | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

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