Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burden of the $3-a-month premiums would be eased considerably by a basic 7% increase in old-age pension checks, retroactive to last January. The maximum monthly social security payment of $127 would immediately rise to $135.90, but everyone would get at least $4 more a month to spend. A simultaneous liberalization of social security rules would, among other things, bring self-employed doctors into the program for the first time-making them eligible for medicare...
...Asia's burden of religious, linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked...
...program in the areas of land, housing, school and industrial development. In new elections last month, Frei's Christian Democrats won an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies and planned a full-scale assault on Chile's ills. They still plan to proceed despite the added burden of digging out from the earthquake...
This gross mistake is followed by an equally distorted view of the nature of a disarmed world. He argues that nations are growing increasingly adept at policing their internal affairs and at restraining those who would aggrandize irresponsibly. This process is, according to Millis, constantly reducing the burden that will have to be placed on the international police charged with enforcing disarmament. He perceives a civilizing element at work throughout the world, building a consensus against the use of modern weapons--a consensus which will make the international police problems easier than is frequently supposed. Millis does not foresee...
...call on you to end this minute your treacherous, oriental, imperialist policies. Your scheming, unprovoked stand "behind this whole movement to sweep the West off the peninsula," the peaceloving West which has never so much as megatonned a single Chinese city, and which has even borne the exorbitantly expensive burden of dominating South Vietnam for the last 11 years when this job really belonged to China, cannot be tolerated by May 2nd any longer. Such ungraciousness stretches our 'tenderminded" toleration to its limits...