Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squeezing Wives. That evening, in a television address, Chancellor Butler dryly explained why he had deliberately spread the burden. "We must consume less," he said. "It's better really to make the feel of this go over the whole field...
Take the income tax, an event of annoying recurrence. The "average American," of whom Time writes with great apparent familiarity, was bent over by his tax burden during the Democratic years. Thus: "This week once again, the American taxpayer was working over his income tax return. He did not do the job happily. . . The Blow, in full and crushing measure, now lands each March 15 on the chin of a fellow named John...
...proper burden on the sub-committee," he added, "If it was going to prefer criminal charges, was to formulate questions so that they would fall, at least approximately, within the scope of the known limits of its authority...
...added burden on last year's budget was a sum of $8000 for three years' back taxes on membership fees. In previous years, the Coop had claimed that the fees were an untaxable "contribution to capital," not to be considered as income. This year, the directors decided to avoid counsels' fees and interest and pay what the government demanded...
Peron's immature character was revealed in the events leading to the revolution. Hell-bent as he was, the love of a wise, well-educated, warm-hearted grown-up would have been a burden." --Editorial in the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon