Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as the pressures on the South Vietnamese government affect the Paris talks, so, too, do the pressures on the leaders of North Viet Nam. Are the North Vietnamese really weary of the war? Have the tremendous losses suffered by Hanoi's army in the South placed a burden on Ho Chi Minh's freedom of action? Do the North Vietnamese now want peace badly enough to make significant concessions...
...world where peace is still unattainable the fact of war's existence "must be borne even as we strive to abolish it." Christianity, he says, needs both kinds of ministers-the civilian picketing for peace and the chaplain serving "those brave young men who bear so disproportionate a burden of the sins of the world...
...tell for sure what the ultimate effects would be on the University's finances. What about the "needs of the 'longer long term?" In fact, with real expenses rising linearly and the investments rising exponentially, Harvard cannot lose over time by allowing the endowment to shoulder more of the burden which student fees now carry...
...help him by means of special programs only makes this inferiority even more obvious. The many black students who are well able to hold their own with the best of the rest feel hey must not desert their fellow black comrades and hence feel obligated to make their burden their very...
...extent that publicity hurts their families. When the press names student leaders, for example, some fathers receive hate mail, lose business orders or feel subtle disapproval by employers. Some fathers are also public officials, an extra burden. The presence of the son of Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr., at the recent Harvard sit-in, for instance, was widely noted in press accounts. Like other prominent men in this situation, Seamans refuses to discuss the matter. Equally upset are the parents of some first-generation college students, including poor Negroes, who are baffled when their children seem to reject...