Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in retirement at Het Loo ("The Grove"), she did not lay down the burden entirely. She had one wing of the magnificent 17th century palace converted into quarters for invalided Resistance fighters and refugees from Hungary and Indonesia. She painted, took walks, but no longer was she spry enough for bicycling. With her death, she had finally escaped from her earthly cage. And, as she requested, she will be given a "white funeral" because, as she wrote in her memoirs, it symbolizes "the certainty of faith that death is the beginning of life...
...soft money" also places a burden on the future by encouraging the University to add permanent overhead, such as buildings and a staff on tenure, for short-run projects...
Certainly a football concert ought not to strive for the heights and depths, but it needn't be spread thin with kitsch, either. Perhaps both choruses should help out at the pep rally and give up for one evening their burden of reviving serious choral music. They're doing only a halfway...
...present-day Englishmen, the British Imperial System does not mean the White Man's Burden but something very nearly as outdated: a labyrinthine heritage of weights and measures that would long since have driven a less hardy race to dementia or to decimals...
Once the General Court is freed of the burden of governing cities, a six month limit can be put on the legislative session. If the Governor needs to wrangle with the legislature for only half the year, he will be able to spend time shaping a coherent executive program...