Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps if one wants to remember Kennedy the best thing to do is to open The Burden and the Glory, a collection of the speeches of the last two years edited by Allan Nevins. It is surprising how one remembers the phrases that pounded at you out of the television and the printed page...
...work on cows?" It does. After elaborate experiments at the Beltsville, Md., agricultural research center, India's Food and Agricultural Ministry enthusiastically launched a pilot project in the northern province of Uttar Pradesh. Of the country's 200 million cattle, some 75% are used as beasts of burden or as milk producers. The remaining 50 million are mostly scrawny, inferior and ownerless. Any cow can be fitted with the contraceptive for a few pennies, and Indian experts think that the program will prompt no public outcry...
...react to communications coming through his skin. Far from being an added distraction, says Psychology Professor Frank A. Geldard of Princeton's Cutaneous Communications Laboratory, skin signals sent out by small electrical vibrators buzzing at the rate of 60 cycles per second, will take some of the burden off the pilot's saturated eyes and ears. A ring of vibrators worn around his waist and buzzing in rapid sequence will fee! like a spinning Hula Hoop. The message would be an effective means of alerting a pilot to a particular danger...
More U.S. consumers are more heavily in debt than ever before, but the burden seems to rest lightly on the nation's shoulders. By buying his furniture and house on the installment plan, charging his clothes, sending his kids to college on a loan, and taking off on a fly-now-pay-later vacation, the American consumer has piled up a truly phenomenal $280 billion debt-and is rapidly adding to it. Families are up to their eaves in $190 billion worth of mortgages, also bear another $76 billion in various consumer debts. One household...
...LORD CHESTERFIELD: "Few Would-be servants of God put so much energy into their task as Chesterfield puts into the service of Mammon. The load carried by Bunyan's Christian was almost light compared with the burden imposed by this Worldly Wiseman on his unfortunate offspring. He felt that life held no greater good than to please it and be pleased by it. He tells his son: 'We shall not converse much together, for I cannot stand awkwardness; it would endanger my health...