Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woolens and worsteds, made at Geneva in 1948, were a factor in the 50 per cent decline of this segment of the industry. A partial compensation for this policy is an agreement with Japan to put a voluntary quota on cotton exports. "Our position," Harris stated, "was that the burden ... of solving the Japanese problems should not be put excessively on cotton textiles...
...finds little that is cheery. In a patriotic fervor, the country endorsed the idea that every veteran was entitled to own his home, and the resulting pieces of Federal legislation created an ideal opportunity for unscrupulous builders. Lured on by "no money down" advertising, married veterans proceeded to burden themselves with jerry-built houses and crushing mortgages, the wheels of credit began to grind, and the John and Mary Drones of America were trapped...
...feudist and the other a resigned old man, make proud and individualistic people for whom legal 'responsibility' can only be irrelevant. It merely intensifies the private obligation to die well. As Rene's kid brother, Georges Pouliouly sometimes seems less bewildered than still. But no words could express the burden that will fall on him. The casting in the minor roles is exceptional...
None of this proves, say the reporting scientists, that the earth's present "burden" of strontium 90 is an immediate peril, but neither does it prove the contrary. They suspect that the average human being contains about eight times more strontium 90. than was reported in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 18), and they note that the amount is increasing, and may be increasing rapidly. They insist that no one knows how much is needed to damage health...
...colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some esoteric military order but merely for Dirty Old Man. It is all a long way from W.M.B.-the White Man's Burden of the great, dead Kipling days...