Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contention that such a ruling will "impose an undue burden" on tavernkeepers, the judge was unimpressed. He could see nothing but a benefit to "the public interest" if Jersey tavernkeepers obey the law and exercise reasonable care about whom they serve. However, because the trial judge made errors in his instructions to the jury, the case was sent back for a new trial...
...notable for the testing of many inventions. Thermite came along, mustard gas and the flamethrower, but the prime change in warfare stemmed from the ability of modern industry to turn out an unlimited quantity of high explosives. What this meant in chilling human terms is the burden of Chapman's fine book. It is grave and sardonic, but not extravagantly so, about staff officers and others who contrived cushy jobs out of the war; it is pious toward the dead, and the living are sketched cleanly in a line or two, unforgettably and unsentimentally...
...Giants obtained Lindy McDaniel from Chicago and Joe Gibbon from Pittsburgh. These two veterans will relieve Frank Linzy of some of the bullpen burden, and will definitely place Bob Shaw on full-time work as a starter -- if Shaw signs his contract...
Mayor John Lindsay early this month proposed to add to that burden by a 50% increase in securities-transfer taxes, the Big Board threatened to leave town...
That means a series of Humphrey-Kennedy primary battles, with Kennedy likely to come out ahead. Humphrey will inherit all the Administration's unpopularities--a back-breaking burden if the Vietnam war is still going on. Kennedy will have a clear advantage of the already-begun do-se-do maneuvering--Bobby to the left, Hubert to the right. Kennedy can keep making more and more liberal statements and never risk his standing with basically conservative big-city Roman Catholic voters that form the bedrock of his support. Humphrey, on the other hand, can lose the temperamental self-conscious liberal vote...