Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with modern weapons of war, foreshortening time and space, the element of surprise has far greater weight than ever before in military calculation, and a big part of the fear of attack is the fear of surprise; therefore, 3) the best hope for peace and for reducing the burden of armaments lies in eliminating or diminishing the danger of surprise attack...
...dams. The House committee demolished the high dam after reading a letter in which President Eisenhower said: "It is inconceivable to me that serious consideration is being given in some quarters to stopping this development, depriving the Northwest of power which is badly needed now, and throwing an additional burden on the already heavily burdened taxpayers of the nation...
...modest resources. She has played a dizzy platinum blonde (Phffft!), a red-tressed, small-town belle (Picnic), a slum-dwelling B-girl (The Man with the Golden Arm), a golden-haired Manhattan society beauty of the '205 (The Eddy Duchin Story). In each picture, the major acting burden fell on others, while Newcomer Novak managed to scale the heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four...
...This group contains many of the misfits who, if they cannot be assimilated, must be eliminated." Last week West Pointer Clarke reported that more than 4,200 misfits had been sent home for discharge, another 3,000 put through special remedial courses. But some 41,000 low-grades still burden Clarke's round-the-clock training program in an age when atomic war requires bright, trained specialists and combat troops able to think and operate in small, independent units...
DOWNING B. JENKS, president, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.: "A 3% or 4% increase in carloadings and the possibility of an increase in freight rates should enable the railroads to overcome, to a large extent, the burden of higher wages and material costs, thus ending up the year about as well...