Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite a burden, indeed. Truman estimated the year's expenditures at $78.6 billion, which is more than he has spent in any of his years in the White House. He anticipated a deficit of $9.9 billion at the end of the year, higher than any since the $20 billion World War II deficit of 1946. At the end of fiscal 1954, Truman foresaw a national debt of $273.8 billion, nudging the statutory limit of $275 billion. Other notable figures...
...could remain much like the present course, with the second term devoted to discussion of the subject's more subtle particulars. An extension would not carve much of a slice from the Economics Department's budget, yet it would provide an important aid for students trying to meet the burden of graduate school courses and personnel office requirements...
...Chicago); Charlotte a doctor (she became a professor and poet) ; Isabel a nurse (she became a novelist); and Janet a scientist (she gave up zoology for marriage). When it came to Thornton, father Wilder had little hope: "Poor Thornton, poor Thornton," he would say, "he'll be a burden all his life...
...forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece and wisdom from Egypt, but with the coming on of night they seemed to regain their lost honors, and the land that was soon to be called Holy prepared in the dark its wonderful burden...
...level of a year ago-a little more than half the recent rate. Brannan had no choice: under a clause in the Defense Production Act, sponsored by Minnesota's Republican Representative August Andresen, dairy imports must be limited to quantities that will not "result in any unnecessary burden or expenditures under any Government price-support program...