Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ideological Defect. The burden of Liu's self-denunciation turned on his "lack of understanding" and "miscalculation" of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution-in other words, his opposition to Mao. Now, he said, "I have decided to submit faithfully to the regulations of the party and not to be of two minds in party matters." It all sounded definitively abject-the words of a vanquished...
...remaining defenders pulled back around the two 105s still in U.S. hands. The guns were cranked down to point-blank range; high-explosive shells, white phosphorus and "beehives," the deadly modern version of grapeshot, were fired at the enemy. Helicoptered reinforcements soon arrived to reclaim the hill with its burden of heavy casualties, including 117 enemy dead...
...there had been no word on whether the U.S. plans to sign another wheat agreement with India - to replace one that expires Dec. 31. The long delay reflected the White House view that India could be moving faster in modernizing its agriculture and that other countries must share the burden by providing grain, fertilizer or the hard currency...
...carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall's resident psychiatrist, Theodore Isaac Rubin, offered morose counsel: "There are those who feel they should have such enormous enjoyment during a holiday that they become depressed anticipating their inevitable disappointment. Yes, having to enjoy themselves can be burden enough to kill the enjoyment." And Seventeen's psychiatrist, Robert Nixon, warned his adolescent readers of the "wonderful, terrible power of takeover" of Christmas. Young people, he confided, are bound to feel disconsolate when Christmas Day finally arrives...
...noble Kerouac ancestors in ancient Armorica (Brittany) just as if he were some crude millionaire of the Gilded Age shopping at Heralds College for something fancy in the way of ancestors. That Kerouac has simple faith became evident long ago; that he has Breton blood is the slight burden of this little book...