Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman and hopes that General Eisenhower will be elected and that he will change U.S. policy on the Israeli-Arab problem. The British whisper that Britain did everything it could to protect the Arabs against the U.S.'s mad determination to create the state of Israel. The burden of hate is shifting more & more to the Americans. And the U.S. does nothing to answer the accusations...
...answered like a candidate on some other subjects. Taxes: "It certainly seems to me they're too high for our prolonged economic stability . . . [But] the tax burden ... is due largely to the national defense effort . . ." Taft-Hartley law: "There are . . . more than a hundred provisions, I think-sections, subsections . . . I couldn't answer am I for or against it ... I think the law needs revision . . ." Compulsory FEPC: "I would hope very much that the problem of civil rights could be administered by the states . . . If it's impossible for the states to do this...
...some, these remarks may smack of religious jingoism, but we feel it is past time for American Catholics to be relieved from the oppressive burden of our Spanish brethren. We have spent weary hours cleaning up the blood the Spaniards overzealously spilt in the Inquisition. If they wish to call the cops on the Protestants four centuries late, they can take the blame themselves...
...semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
...Butler was howled down three times before he could proceed. But soon, unruffled and undiscouraged, he continued with some good news. The government intended to ease the burden...