Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more (and a lot less) to the Old West than meets the eye of the guy who watches "Gunsmoke" every Sunday night. Residents of the great Plains were economic men who had better things to do than sit around saloons waiting for a shoot-out or a moral dilemma. The broad side of barn doors represented the outer limit of marksmanship for most cowpokes, few of whom could afford to by guns or ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot...
...large share of its income, and dozens have gone a step farther to create huge tobacco monopolies that provide revenue while making work for millions of farmers, factory hands, salesmen and bureaucrats. With evidence mounting that smoking causes cancer and heart disease, many governments are now faced with a dilemma: whether to put public health ahead of fiscal health and discourage the smoking urge among their people...
...stake in the evening events. Since this was not an official appearance of the Glee Club but an effort to help a courageous Harvard man living in Birmingham achieve an important goal, I decided to consider sending simply seven singers. So I went to Mr. Epps to explain the dilemma. Mr. Epps said he understood this, objected to my decision on principle but would not obstruct it. And indeed he didn't. The next morning the whole Club had an exchange of song at Miles College. The Birmingham concert that night was well-attended and the reception that followed...
...third of four William Belden Noble Lectures, Brown described for an audience of 200 in Memorial Church the dilemma of the Catholic Church as it tries to alter its negative conception of religious freedom. "In the past," Brown said, "toleration has served as an expedient in areas where persecution was impractical...
...dollars and pounds for the world to use. When other Western countries accumulate a lot of dollars and pounds, on the other hand, their bankers start to complain of inflation and tend to trade in some of that money for U.S. and British gold. There is constantly a dilemma: either Washington and London lose gold, or the rest of the Western world runs low on capital...