Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNamara cannot be held responsible for speaking out every time an individual or a group demands it. Certainly, he has to explain Vietnam policy and answer its critics. He must do it continually; the burden, in fact, is on him to keep meeting the attacks. But he does have the right to choose his forums...
CRAZY QUILT. Henry (Tom Rosqui), by profession a termite exterminator, is a completely illusionless man. Lorabelle (Ina Mela), who believes in Providence and butterflies, is a visionary maid. How this unlikely couple meet, marry, and share a long life together is the bittersweet burden of this American fable...
...excessive literalism or by the idolization of outdated doctrinal formulas. The experience of church history is that every definition is a spiritual agony-man's ever impossible attempt to capture infinite mystery in finite words. "Words strain," as T. S. Eliot wrote, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still...
CRAZY QUILT. Henry (Tom Rosqui), by profession a termite exterminator, is a completely illusionless man. Lorabelle (Ina Mela), who believes in Providence and butterflies, is a visionary maid. How this unlikely couple meet, marry and share a long life together is the bittersweet burden of this American fable...
...also certain that man's upright posture puts an unnatural burden on the veins of the feet, legs and thighs, which have to work against gravity when blood is returning toward the heart. Normally, most of the blood travels through deep, internal veins, which are tightly enclosed in muscle and other tissues. The rest of the blood goes through thin-walled surface veins. Connecting the internal and external veins, like the rungs of a ladder, are horizontal communicating veins. All these veins are fitted by nature with internal cuplike valves, which open rhythmically to let a certain amount...