Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rusk's intent was at least partly vitiated by the grudging tone of Hoover's letter and by a later Hoover letter that South Dakota's Karl Mundt, the treaty's most vocal opponent, brought forth. Though the FBI could take on the increased burden, Hoover conceded to Mundt, its work under the treaty would be "more difficult." Rusk, for his part, never denied that the Russians might use consulates for spying-in the past decade, 28 Russian officials have either been expelled or arrested for espionage-but noted simply that ten to 15 Soviet consular...
...Class Burden...
...split in experience may have serious consequences, for, as a result of the student deferment and mental-physical standards, the selective service now forces a particular group of young people--the lower-middle class--to bear a disproportionate share of the burden. The deferment weeds out those who do not have the resources--mental, material, and motivational--to climb the dizzying ladder to "higher" education. The physical and intelligence criteria select out much of the lower class. As the Task Force on Manpower Conservation showed in its report One-Third of a Nation, at least a fifth of those rejected...
...Military conscription is an interference with our basic liberties so extreme that only exceedingly strong reasons can justify discriminating between one eligible man and another in the distribution of this burden. No such justification can be found for the present deferment (and often, ultimate exemption) of col- lege students and teachers. It requires no special expertise to see that speculative reasons of social benefit are not strong enough...
...motor scooter, Adam transports this burden of anxiety to the library of the British Museum, where he is vetting a doctoral thesis on sentence structure in the modern English novel. But his overcast mood easily distracts him from the academic chase...