Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order in the ghettos, where such a statement by any other white man would have been interpreted as anti-Negro. A curious blend of liberal and conservative, he was concerned about poverty and the cities, yet convinced that the Government should not always take on their full burden...
...CRIMSON, steadfast in her role as self-styled vanguard of the people, wrote of those who refused to take part in the War Bonds campaign: "If their conclusions are that any money they lend the government will aid in prosecuting the war, that Roosevelt should shoulder all the Burden, and that their own troubles come first--then let them think carefully before giving monetary aid to their country. They should be applauded for their courage to stand up for their own rights. They will probably still be doing, so when the Japs land at San Francisco and the Nazis...
...ruled Southern school segregation unconstitutional, 13 years since the court ordered desegregation "with all deliberate speed," and four years since it ruled that "the time for mere 'deliberate speed' has run out." Last week, on behalf of an impatient and unanimous court, Justice William Brennan wrote: "The burden on a school board today is to come forward with a plan that promises realistically to work, and promises realistically to work...
...woman named Myrtle who insisted on removing the centerfold picture of Playboy before allowing him to read the magazine. He was bored stiff bv the routine of his job, especially Sunday-morning "tune-in duty," when he monitored church services on earth He sometimes complained of the lonely burden he bore as ruler of the universe. "The buck, as Mr. Truman said, stops here, ' God wrote. "And I mean it really stops here. I would give my omniscience to be able to pass just one decision on to higher authority...
...depressing to see that the long-awaited Dunlop Report carries not even token mention of Harvard's more than 900 teaching fellows, currently bearing much of the burden of lower level course instruction at Harvard. This again underscores the administration's total refusal to recognize that graduate students who are given the responsibility for teaching are in fact teachers, and that their remuneration and general treatment should be in keeping with this. One wonders who will be teaching the lower level courses now handled by instructors if instructorships are eliminated, or if faculty is cut back, as was suggested...