Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simple. When Butts's suit came to trial last week, the Post led off, since the defense has the burden of proving truth. First major witness was Atlanta Insurance Salesman George Burnett, who claimed to have been an accidental eavesdropper on a pregame phone call between Butts and Bryant. It was Burnett's notes on what he said he heard that were the basis of the Post expos...
...going to rely on the technicality that the Saturday Evening Post has the burden of proving the truth," said Attorney Schroder. "We are going to show that Butts did not and could not have done these things." Schroder had got Georgia End Coach Leroy Pearce to admit that after reviewing movies of the game, he could find no evidence that Alabama had taken advantage of the Georgia weaknesses Butts supposedly gave away. Now Schroder called Coach Bryant to the stand...
...Shared Burden. Norman Moonbloom is "New York's most educated rent collector," with degrees from Wisconsin, McGill, Mexico and Bowdoin. His heart, if anywhere, is in his boots as he trudges each week through the Lower East Side and Yorkville to collect rent in cash and to issue promises that some thing (the toilet, the walls, the fusebox, or whatever) will be fixed. It never...
...between higher education and the federal government. Marning said one resolution in this area would probably survey the general problems posed by the great increase in Federal contributions to university budgets. A second resolution will deal with the increasing cost of education, and possible ways of alleviating the financial burden on college students...
...Spanish, moreover, would be a disservice to New York's Puerto Ricans themselves. Their advancement to their potential economic, social and cultural levels as inhabitants of New York depends upon their becoming literate in English. A special literacy test, far from lifting the Puerto Ricans' language burden, would only help perpetuate...