Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burden of Reconstruction. It was in the course of a Harvard Commencement Day address by then Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall that the plan was officially born. "I need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious," began Marshall in his precise, low-key style. "The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for foreign food and other essential products-principally from America -are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social and political deterioration...
...have to ask young men to do our fighting for us, involuntarily if necessary; we should not ask the young men to pay our taxes for us. The draft should not be used as a means of shifting the financial burden of war or preparedness onto the same young men who are selected to carry the burden of risk and disrupted careers. The "cost" of attracting the 2.5 or 2.75 million enlistees in peace-time is not really saved when we draft them; it is merely shifted, in the form of lower wages, from taxpayers...
...simple rule: "Premarital sex is all right if you are in love and faithful-for a while. And if you can't be good, be careful." Even aside from traditional questions of right or wrong, virtue or sin, this seems to place an inordinately heavy burden of decision and judgment on the young...
...heavy burden of learning and the rigorous formal demands of the New Criticism of Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...
...conference committee adopts the House plan, 19-year-olds could choose between the service or a college deferment until their graduation or 24th birthday (whichever came first). Such an option would cripple the President's plan to ease the heavy burden of conscription on lower income groups through the lottery system. It would permit 19-year-olds who have the resources to attend college to wait out the Vietnamese war in school while forcing young men without those resources to serve...