Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow next fall to demonstrate Communist loyalty to the Soviet Union and denounce Peking. The satellites resist this because they fear, probably with reason, that if Khrushchev can clearly establish his mastery over Peking, he will then try to re-establish his mastery over Eastern Europe. In this dilemma, Moscow last week turned, ironically, to Yugoslavia's Tito, the man who by his defiance of Stalin in 1948 made himself the very symbol of "national Communism." Tito knew that only some 50 of the possible 90 major Communist parties in the world were willing to follow the Moscow line...
...This is a problem of the heart and the mind, not the problem of the lawyer, the problem of the Senator, the Congressman or the President." All but unnoticed amid the cheering was the fact that Goldwater offered no solution at all to the U.S.'s civil rights dilemma and apparently had no substantive ideas on the subject...
...words) "by having the laymen's repressed zeal turned into a dillusionment and embitterment that will breed in our land the kind of spirit that has poisoned the relations of the clergy in so much of western Europe and in Latin America." But if Novak clearly envisions the dilemma of contemporary American Catholicism, he shuns too many of the specifics upon which its future will depend...
...coups could erode the people's will to resist. As General Giap has suggested, Communist strategy now envisages not one big Dienbienphu but a lot of small, frustrating engagements. Says Giap: "The enemy will pass slowly from the offensive to the defensive and be caught in a dilemma; he has to drag out the war in order to win it and does not possess, on the other hand, the psychological and political means to fight a long-drawn-out war." What the Communists hope for, clearly, is a Dienbienphu of the spirit...
...fears Negro and white have been too long estranged. And even so, if truth must first be found someone will continue to ask, "What is the truth (?)" and numerous answers will be given. Apparently, it is not the presence or absence of truth, love, Christianity or the American dilemma which caused oppression of the Negro but institutions and men who are not responsive to or who evade change and whose behavior, like the Anabaptist, is affected by what they believe to be expedient...