Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallipoli became a British synonym for "gallantry and folly" is the burden of the latest book by Alan Moorehead, Australian World War II war correspondent (North Africa, Europe). His account of this last great battle for Constantinople, when Western man last fought for "glory" and "immortality," gleams like a ribbon on khaki...
Camplaints from girls living in off-campus houses caused the Radcliffe Student Government Association yesterday to pass a resolution designed to equalize the burden of the work program for off-campus residents...
...down room and board costs by requiring each girl to spend approximately two to four hours a week working in her dorm or house--either answering phones or waiting on table. Most of the brick dorms require the off-campus girls who eat there to share in the extra burden of work that they create...
...foreign students in the college have spent several years getting "Americanized" before they enroll. Although some of the graduate schools, such as the School of Public Health with its 40 per cent foreign enrollment, have worked out good advisorial systems, others, notably the GSAS, have tended to leave the burden on the student...
Galbraith cited the "highly regressive arrangement" of the present draft, charging that the system shifts the burden of military service from the "well-to-do taxpayer, who benefits from lower taxes, to the impecunious young draftee." This arrangement would not be tolerated in any other area, he felt...