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Word: dilemna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Realizing the seriousness of his dilemna, the jockey leapt from his mount and began a frenzied dash after the pack, which was already approaching the first turn. He finished a respectable fourth, just missing the Win, Place and Show money...

Author: By Mack A. Kniphe and Robert Ullmann, S | Title: All Joking Aside, Is the Jockey Really Necessary? | 5/24/1977 | See Source »

...novel. The Last Chance, Jaffe updates those women, describing a year in the lives of four women verging on 40, all friends from the past; each of them faces the same dilemna of marriage versus career once again, and for the last time each attempts to discover what it is she wants and how that goal can be attained. The women who 20 years ago took a deep breath and gulped down bourbon have matured to white wine, but in their new sophistication they remain as drawn to New York's lure as ever, continually drifting deeper into its magnetic...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: In Search of One's Own Middle Ground | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Separated from the barrios of Los Angeles and San Antonio and the strife-ridden fields of the San Joaquin Valley by 3000 miles, politicized Chicanos encounter a dilemna at Harvard--the absence of issues that directly concern their community. While some RAZA members do participate in UFW-sponsored pickets of local supermarkets, the organization has chosen to focus its energies on recruiting to expand the size of the Chicano community on campus...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: Two Stories of Minority Admissions | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...preliminary negotiations are one thing, but fundamental progress on the questions of Golan, of the West Bank, and of the Palestinians, will not be achieved under the Meir regime. Unfortunately the present political climate in Israel precludes the formation of such a unity government, and this is a key dilemna in the Mid-East crisis...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Israeli Stalemate | 3/20/1974 | See Source »

...more basic to the current dilemna of Memorial Church is the anomaly of an established Protestant church (with strong Unitarian/Congregational leanings) in a community that has become increasingly otherwise. "I don't know what they believe in," Gomes said of the typical undergraduates at Harvard, "but whatever it is they don't do it here...

Author: By Charles M Kahn, | Title: Harvard Religion: Gone Are the Halcyon Days | 3/2/1973 | See Source »

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