Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks. Traveling westward, he watched massive demonstrations of nuclear weaponry in the broiling heat of desert missile ranges and from the breezy decks of aircraft carriers. He made speeches on subjects ranging from the bright future of the U.S. Air Force to the nation's earthier civil rights dilemma. He politicked with Democratic officeholders and made a chatty appearance at another of those $1,000-a-couple fund-raising dinners...
...them for Miss Keeler." Despite his subsequent attempt to protect Profumo and the government, said Ward, he had reported Profumo's liaison to British intelligence when it was at its height in 1961. Said he: "I've almost had a nervous breakdown. It's a terrible dilemma. One didn't want to bitch up anybody. You owe it to your friends. But I must clear myself...
...without losing royal face. Or he could declare a "recount" of votes and rig the results, a course repugnant to the idealistic monarch. Using the constitution he drafted last year, Hassan could even dissolve the House and forget about the democracy he had promised the nation. Wrestling with his dilemma, the King got little sympathy from the opposition. Jeered National Union Leader Abderrakim Benabid...
...generally do no more than brush between meals or settle down with a stronger soap. At most, he has only to step up his vocabulary; sometimes it is simply a matter of developing more prominent pectoral muscles. It is how to lose friends that has become the contemporary American dilemma, and a tactical...
...tender-minded individual seeks to live by principles; the tough- minded, by facts. "Clearness and simplicity thus set up rival claims," according to James, "and make a real dilemma for the thinker. A man's philosophic attitude is determined by the balance in him of these two cravings. No system of philosophy can hope to be universally accepted among men which grossly violates either need, or entirely subordinates the one to the other. The fate of Spinoza, with his barren union of all things in one substance, on the one hand; that of Hume, with his equally barren 'looseness...