Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace--are paradoxically the same and yet far different. As regards methods, miles apart. Indeed, the winning of the war could engender such conditions in our minds that we would be unable to preserve liberty when the time of peace had come. And it is this dilemma which must be considered carefully by every young American, particularly every soldier. For only by recognizing the dilemma may we hope that it will be solved...
...face the dilemma which always faces distinctively Christian bodies. We must ... not confine ourselves to uttering mere platitudes. We must . . . avoid seeming to put the authority of Christ and His Church behind political and economic schemes which, however laudable in purpose, may be presently impracticable. . . . Actually, I believe that Christ was the great realist. ... He did not propound specific reforms and advocate specific revolts. But what He taught operated as political and social dynamite, because those that believed His word were forced to adopt a revolutionary attitude toward the social and political systems under which they lived...
...found in quantity. Last week, braised beef was served at the House Dinners. Equally elusive to the desperate steward, such commodities as perishable vegetables, shortening, cheese, canned goods, to say nothing of less common delicacies, must be definitely curtailed on the menu. Expense, too, is the dietitian's dilemma. When the last inventory was concluded several months ago, most food prices were found to have doubled. Charging only forty-five cents per meal; officials are waging a losing battle to keep up the quantity and standard of the food...
...result, the Harvard diploma, which appeared about as attainable as a set of tires to many in 1941, now becomes the well-earned possession of many a young officer and enlisted man. The great and universally-felt fear of tailspinning standards, the bogey-like dilemma of a year ago, has been avoided by the preservation of a great part of the teaching faculty, and a resolute rigidity in the entrance requirements...
...Hitler's dilemma in Yugoslavia, Greece, Rumania and Middle Europe-so often reported and exaggerated that it was hard for the Allies to take it seriously-was now genuinely grave. The Nazis dared not relax their throat hold on Western Europe...