Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minister to pretend that he just happened to drop in are no help. Inexperienced ministers are likeliest to agree to this deception: "They come breezing in as though by chance, express astonishment at finding someone of the household sick, and, of course, under the circumstances cannot bear any burden of the seriousness of the situation." Other hazards are people faking illness, and designing women: "There have been quite well substantiated cases in which women have staged a sickness to entice the minister. Enough said...
That was all. But it was enough to jolt Britain's weekend quiet. Sir Winston is going on 79. He has been shouldering the extra burden of being his own Foreign Secretary. There was also the frantic go-around of the coronation. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, convalescing in the U.S. from a bile-duct operation, would not be back on the job for at least another four months, and there was no assurance that when he did get back he would be able to operate at full steam. Wan, irritable and sometimes forgetful of late, Sir Winston, it appeared...
...gates of Canada's Chalk River atomic energy project, usually heavily guarded, were deliberately left deserted one recent evening. In lonely majesty a big road grader with a lead-shielded cab lumbered slowly out, towing a skid with a bulky, canvas-wrapped burden. As the skid scraped past, radiation detection devices went wildly off scale. Inside the canvas was a 2½-ton aluminum tank, probably the most troublesome radioactive object that man has ever handled...
...father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic operation of lobotomy (cutting nerve connections in the forebrain) to relieve unbearable pain and the severest mental disorders. Now, in the A.M.A. Journal, 16 years and 2,000 lobotomies later, bearded Surgeon Freeman takes a long, hard look backward over the hazards, successes and failures of lobotomy, and notes a sharp distinction between old and new techniques...
...defeated by ice, huge cliffs and a blizzard. But they did get to the top of Lenana Peak, more than 16,000 ft. high. There they planted an Italian flag, which they had managed to conceal throughout their internment. Then came the grueling descent, with the sick man a burden and with an almost complete lack of food. Eighteen days after they walked out, they staggered back into the P.W. camp. A humane British commander limited punishment to seven days behind bars...