Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor, B. D.; Van Brunt...
...Brunt...
Without doubt the British have born the brunt of the whispering campaign. Almost every frustration which the American have undergone in the last month has been laid at their door. For example, the sugar shortage, tire and gas rationing, and the shortage of tankers for oil transport were all attributed to the British. Every military reverse has similarity been alleged the result of British incompetency or worse. They seem to qualify as the number one scapegoat...
...Retailer, therefore, bears the brunt of the whole price-control program. With few exceptions, U.S. retailers were having the horrors last week. Worst blow was that OPA had denied their plea for a "rollback" of ceiling dates that would recognize the lag between rising wholesale and retail prices. Since retail prices in recent months have been rising more sharply than wholesale prices, the lag between them was smaller in March than it had been earlier (when wholesale prices were rising very fast). But retailers maintained that their price level was still some 10% behind their suppliers...
...Chinese around Toungoo bore the brunt of the ground fighting, with no air support. The American Volunteer Group flyers and the R.A.F. could spare no planes to help them. Unmolested, heavy Jap air forces backed up the ground attack, bombed Toungoo six times in one day. The Jap sidestepped Toungoo to the west, then wheeled at right angles, took the airport north of the town and cut off the Chinese from the British. Surrounded on three sides, the Chinese fought for 60 desperate hours without rest. Then reinforcements arrived and they broke through to begin a retirement. According...