Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II begins, Ro goes right along with it, from blitzed London to the Pacific to the Nurnberg trials. He comes home still carrying in his heart the words spoken to him by H. G. Wells: "If you Americans can't find some way of carrying the burden of Empire, we are sunk...
...that the Constitution exempts the Federal Government from state taxation. Setting forth his renowned dictum that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy," Chief Justice John Marshall declared that the states (and, by inference, local governments) "have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress...
...divorce. The rest had viewed their homes as façades, papier-maché creations erected to cover a desiccated relationship, devoid of love between father and mother. Since most had seen their fathers leave home, their mothers had never made them feel welcome but had always emphasized the burden of parenthood. In rage and desperation, some girls turned hopefully to their fathers-not in an Oedipal attachment, but in hopes of nurture which, again, was denied them...
...Socialists promptly blasted the government for laying the added burden on the whole population, meaning that most of it would be borne by the well. Deliberately so, said Heathcoat-Amory: the government believed this was fairer than putting a still heavier burden on the sick, who are least able to bear...
...novel takes its flavor from the fable; slyly, wryly taking the long way around-and sometimes taking far too long to illuminate his bitter lessons-Author Feibleman has written a first novel about Negroes that is strikingly unlike most other literary heftings of the black man's burden. Perhaps because he is white. New York-born, New Orleans-reared Novelist Feibleman, 27, lacks the pamphleteer's rage of Richard Wright (Black Boy) and the jazzed-up, Joyced-up intellectual's revulsion of Ralph Ellison (The Invisible Man). His book is not a work of protest...