Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus everyone shares time's cruel burden, trapped by the memory of transient pleasures impossible to renew, tragic errors impossible to erase. Only the nubile "niece," played with a fine flair by Nita Klein, escapes untouched for now. "I've had enough of this dump with all its memories," she snaps, and takes herself right back to Paris...
...large proportion of her limited economic resources must now be directed towards defense, so India's two alternatives are either "slowing down the pace of economic development or forcing the country to take on the extra burden of defense." The country cannot afford to slow down its rate of growth, he said, so China is "out to destroy the Indian way of life by fomenting discontent...
Civil rights, he said, must come through "a new spirit" among Negroes themselves. He and fellow workers in the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee "want Negroes to be proud of their blackness, to give up servility and complacency, to 'lay their burden down...
Fashion's permutations and combinations have fascinated the frivolous and the furrow-browed; the shirring of a sleeve or the fall of a hemline has borne the burden of some heavy-duty thinking. Psychologists have explored man's ambivalence about clothes, noting that he uses them on the one hand to cover the body's naughty nakedness, and on the other hand to draw attention...
...Internal Revenue Service ruling may lift a considerable tax burden from many Harvard graduate students working towards their doctoral degrees...