Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Determined to give his only son an English gentleman's education, Motilal put him in the hands of an Irish tutor, Ferdinand Brooks. Under Brooks's guidance, Jawaharlal ranged widely through English literature, one of his favorite authors being that apostle of the white man's burden, Rudyard Kipling...
...spur trade-ins, FHA has put into effect a liberalized financing program. For the first time real-estate brokers and land developers are eligible for FHA mortgages on trade-in deals, thus freeing them of the financial burden of carrying trade-ins on their own. Furthermore, builders who take trade-ins are no longer required to make FHA-approved major improvements before reselling them. Builders complain that the FHA still takes too long to move, appraises houses too low, lends too little on mortgages. In most cases, builders can get a top of 85% on the owner's mortgage...
...these millions of aging men and women be allowed to fall victim to a succession of so-called degenerative diseases, finally become vegetables who have to be diapered and tube-fed and, in the phrase of Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, 60, live as "chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they die from a swift and general collapse...
Take up the White Man's burden, And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard-The cry of hosts ye humor (Ah, slowly!) toward the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night...
...dearly beloved to me in all the world: This is probably the last letter you will receive from me on this earth. Although my thoughts have pursued an orbit around you day and night ever since our separation ... I fear that with everything I shall only pile a new burden upon your poor sorely tried heart...