Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stressed, however, that no decision would be reached without prior consultation with the United States. Officials in the administration, Sir Patrick noted, "have made it perfectly plain that they would prefer that we didn't reduce our commitments, but they understand the extent of the burden we are carrying...
...were to find the burden too much and had to withdraw significantly," Sir Patrick concluded, "the gap would be too great for the United States or any other Western country to fill even if they were willing...
Sijo are still written in Korea and, as might be expected in such troublous times, their burden once more is often political. This one, not included in The Ever White Mountain, was written in 1954, at the end of the Korean War, by Yi Un-sang, the foremost living sijo poet...
Harvard's problem started when goalie Rich Hammond dislocated two fingers in a scramble for the ball 18 minutes into the first quarter. With first-string goalie Nat Bowditch on the disabled list from last week's Columbia game, the burden of stopping the strong Cornell attack fell to last year's freshman goalie, Norris Childs...
Double sessions would reduce teaching time by 35 minutes a day. In addition, it would impose an extra burden on working mothers, who would have to find baby-sitters to watch the children for an entire halfday. For a mother with one child in the morning session and another in afternoon classes this would mean a full day of sitters...