Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Practical Dilemma. The Pope's admission of uncertainty on the issue, combined with his insistence that the old prohibitions stay in effect, leaves Catholic married couples in something of a dilemma. Acting on a respected principle of moral theology that a doubtful law does not oblige obedience, millions of married Catholics have in the past three years made the decision in good conscience to practice contraception...
Already, there have been two meetings between university and City officials on the housing dilemma. Specific results from them have not been announced, though it is known that the possibility of the universities' sponsoring non-university housing projects was under discussion. The question is how far both Harvard and M.I.T. will go in seeing these and other necessary housing proposals to fruition...
Still there remained the stubbornly insoluble obstacle of Viet Nam. At his press conference last week, Johnson implicitly acknowledged Moscow's-and his-dilemma by noting, "There are only two governments in the world that now appear opposed to ending the war." But, given the intransigence of Hanoi and Peking, the President pointed out, the U.S. cannot afford the gesture of suspending bombing raids on the North as a step toward peace talks. "We have had two pauses," he snapped. During both, "our boys sat there and watched" while the enemy "threw his hand grenades, lobbed his mortars...
...legislation will rescue social scientists from the dilemma of needing government money but having no place to get it except through agencies with special political or military interests. If successful, the Foundation will open the way for even more aid to social research, but aid distributed to projects with more abstract value than preventing the next revolution...
...classification and be inducted into the military. Sometimes a few courses at night school will placate a local draft board without violating the conditions for readmission to Harvard. But when a local board demands full-time college attendance to qualify for 2-S, the student is caught in a dilemma: either he forsakes Harvard, or he is drafted...