Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that the clerks of the State Senate and House of Representatives are currently busy preparing for the 1967 Court, but the added burden of the special session would not be that great, and would not even compare with the volume of work performed by the clerks during the hectic last weeks of a normal session...
...laughs, and yet curiously anemic in genuine humor. Lou Jacobi and Kay Medford are masters of ethnically styled comic delivery. He gives a line a built-in shrug. She is a one-woman keening committee, and her voice has a cold in its head. The couple's common burden is a Gentile nudnick of an embassy chief who has suffered every major disaster in his diplomatic posts except "a plague of locusts." An innocent abroad with a camera, Jacobi touches off a spy scare but outwits the entire Communist secret service by comedy's end. That...
Perhaps the Council's greatest challenge is approaching now over the question extending freshman parietal hours. Because the HUC proposal on parietals does not include freshmen, the burden to present Dean von Stade with a careful study rests on the Council. Yet more and more, the Council is depending upon a few members. Traditionally, attendance at meetings slackens, and apathy spreads as the year proceeds. It would be disappointing if this Freshman Council were to fail now in its attempt to become effective student government...
...because it insists upon exercise but because it demands adherence to rules in the same paternalistic spirit as compulsory chapel or class attendance. PT has in fact become more flexible in recent years. Still, the system is an insult and inconvenience to students, not to mention the administrative burden of keeping tabulations on each freshman and sending warnings to laggards until the end of their sophomore year...
Instead, it seemed to Scheer that racists -- including Oakland's White Citizens Council -- thought their taxes were going to support Negroes on welware. When these voters were convinced that only two percent of their taxes were spent on welfare programs -- that it was the war that was putting the burden on them -- "racism disappeared." "I was frank with whites," he added. "I told them they had damn good reasons to build Negro schools and start other crash programs. I told them they were going to be the victims of Negro frustration...