Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. "Wouldn't it really be better for us, wouldn't it be better for the Soviet Union, wouldn't it be better for Great Britain, wouldn't it be better for all the people of the world who are looking to us for leadership if we carried Ohio by 400,000 instead of 300,000?"-Dayton...
...pictures of servicemen on leave from Viet Nam [Jan. 5]. I'll thank God for five days when I'll know my husband is safe. I find worrying about the other 360 days of his tour very depressing. R & R is one brief respite from the terrible burden of responsibility that any officer lives with day and night. Winnie Poteete says wives could use rest and recuperation. If you will stack 24 of your hours against 24 of his, Mrs. Poteete...
...like a man who was seeing everything he had ever stood for turning to ashes. 'Can't you give your father a little peace in his final hours?' asked Mrs. Darnay. 'Put your arm around him and tell him you'll carry on the burden of guilt when he puts it down...
...least enviable jobs in Washington this winter is held by the youngest member of President Johnson's cabinet: Commerce Secretary Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 37. On him falls the burden of enforcing the first mandatory controls on private investment abroad, restrictions that constitute the largest element of Johnson's program to cut the U.S. balance of payments deficit by $3 billion this year...
...Chill Abroad. "Under the new program," maintains Trowbridge, "everyone is sharing the burden-tourism, Government and trade." Outside of Administration circles, that was a lonely view last week. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful George Romney denounced the balance of payments plan as a "major backward move" from free trade, and insisted that Johnson's proposed restrictions on travel "would create a 'Berlin Wall' separating U.S. citizens from the rest of the Atlantic Community." Despite the Administration's globe-hopping efforts, the reaction from abroad turned almost as chilly...