Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burden. At this meeting the President reiterated his hopes for a trip this year to the Soviet Union. "I have reason to believe," he said, "that the Soviet leadership would welcome my visit to their country-as I would be very glad to do. I am hopeful that before the year is out this exchange of visits may occur." At his press conference next day, the President did not elaborate, but the word from the White House was that talks are going on at the ambassadorial level, both in Washington and Moscow. As of last week, it appeared that...
...unknowing and the unthinking would challenge today the motives that bring our public officials together for moments of prayer and meditation." To his listeners, he seemed to be pleading for understanding when he added: "In these times more than any other, the public life is a lonely life. The burden of every vote, every decision, every act -and even of every utterance-is too great to be shared and much too great to be borne alone...
TINY ALICE. Mystification is the end result of Edward Albee's quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama centering on the relationship between a lay brother (John Gielgud) and the richest woman in the world (Irene Worth). The burden of feeling rests on the language and a completely competent cast...
...coffin on the gun carriage was shrouded with the Union Jack, on which rested a black velvet cushion bearing the diamond and gold regalia of the Order of the Garter. More than 100 sailors of the Royal Navy-Churchill's favorite service-drew the gun carriage and its burden forward at a measured 65 paces to the minute.* Each minute, the cannon boomed their soldierly lament...
...burden of added numbers, rather than forcing down academic standards, has raised them. "The big drop in quality that many educators were predicting ten years ago just never took place," says Curriculum Planner A. Harry Passow of Columbia's Teachers College. Instead, the average performance of junior and senior high school teen-agers on many tests has been gradually rising, reports E. F. Lindquist, president of the Measurement Research Center at the University of Iowa. Even though the exams are tougher than a decade ago, and even though seven times as many students (1,500,000 this year...