Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build in our cities as much as all that we have built since the first colonist arrived on these shores. It is as if we had 40 years to rebuild the entire urban U.S." Compounding the burden, he explained, is the present distressed state of U.S. cities: over 5,000,000 run-down or deteriorating homes, pockets of deCay in the heart of most cities, and suburban crawl creeping into the countryside at a rate of 1,000,000 acres a year...
Short Tether. Significantly shifting the burden of proof to censors, Justice William J. Brennan ruled that "the exhibitor must be assured by statute or authoritative judicial construction that the censor will, within a specified brief period, either issue a license or go to court to restrain showing the film." As for the judicial part of the process, Brennan suggested that it should take no more than three or four days...
Such adventures might rival an old Tarzan serial, except for old Conrad's pesky profundity. Occasionally, Brooks backtracks to gather up a few platitudes about fate, courage and honor, and asks his actors to breathe life into them. The burden falls to O'Toole, whose best lines are in his clean-cut profile and whose mannerisms parody his flashy style in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything...
...moves this minor work along in pleasant, soft-shoe style, very welcome .after the heaviness of Youngblood Hawke. And beneath the sagging routines can sometimes be seen a man with a message who got lost. Wouk is no longer at heart a comic writer. He is a moralizer. The burden of his moral is that a man is what he has been: he can do little, perhaps nothing, to break the chains of the past...
...Crimson hopes to end its season with a victory tonight, Sedlacek will have to elude Broadfoot's defensive web. It isn't enough if only Sedlacek has a hot night. McClung, Barry Williams, and Gene Dressler will have to share some of the offensive burden, or Harvard is going to lose. That's the lesson the Crimson quintet has been learning all season...