Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's chief dilemma rose from the fact that its old status had changed, though few seemed to realize it. The U.S. still thought of itself as the peacemaker-or as the umpire on the high chair at the tennis game. But now the U.S. was down on the court, sweating, lobbing back deep smashes, sprinting to the net to dig up drop shots...
Democracy's Dilemma. The evidence was strong but it merely served to prove what everybody knew: that Franco was an Axis stooge. Spaniards, sick of civil war, were not going to rise against him because of the U.S. disclosures. The question was: what were the Allied governments going to do about it? France, Britain and the U.S. issued a note expressing hope that "patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards" may soon find the means to bring about "a peaceful withdrawal of Franco, the abolition of Falange, the establishment of an interim or caretaker government. . . ." Beyond that, there was only...
Having put itself into this dilemma, Tomorrow Is Forever takes the obvious way out. In due course, Husband Welles suffers a convenient fit and falls permanently dead, though not before he has tearfully gazed upon his unsuspecting son, now grown, and solemnly informed his son's mother that the past is the past, the future the future...
...family involved in this particular household dilemma doesn't contain the intrinsically comic characters so well remembered from those laugh-a-minute antecedents in the tradition of the zany famille and the trespasser on the hearth. Yet William Roos' adaptation of the Bollamy Partridge novel is bound to satisfy most of those who are willing to go along with a fairly original version of the old urban-rural conflict, despite the gaping holes left in the comic continuity by the playwright and director Ezra Stone, who will be remembered as Henry Aldrich in real life...
...Simeon faced the age-old dilemma of the religious ascetic: how to gain spiritual strength by withdrawing from mankind and at the same time to minister to man's spiritual needs. Simeon's overardent followers tore at his clothes for souvenirs, played hob with his devotions by their importunate chatter. He escaped by mounting a pillar. Fellow monks fashioned for him a small but sturdy limestone column, then gradually increased the height...