Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really helping the enemy. In his suspenseful, violent plot, French Novelist Boulle suggests that this particular war is fought not between East and West but between common sense and Blimpery. In the end, Blimp wins, but at a high price: he dies, crushed by a white man's burden that was too heavy...
...heartedly to criticism and attempted explications of his novels as it does with A Fable in the last chapter. Here, after outlining the complex plot of the book and commenting on its obvious aspects, Coughlin rather despairingly admits his incapacity to treat it fully or even profitably. "The heavy burden of symbolism of A Fable doubtless will keep Faulkner scholars busy for many years to come. . . The book, on the whole, seems demented...
...every dollar of tax reductions under the new law, only six cents will go to the 74 percent of the nation's families whose annual income is less than $5,000. The reduced tax on dividend income and the ending of the excess profits tax, of course, take the burden off of corporations, and affect the public only indirectly...
...country's needs for energy are expanding so rapidly that the ultimate problem is not what fuel is going to be crowded out, but what can come along to help carry the rapidly growing load. [Atomic energy] will be not a competitor but a burden sharer...
...disadvantage of offices located on all of the floors is obvious to the student with an injured foot or to the nurse that must balance a tray of equipment up several flights of stairs. But it is an equal burden to the Hygiene Building's staff that is continually attempting to coordinate activities...