Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your "Massacre of Kibya" [Oct. 26] made me boil with indignation at the crime-and at you! Were not the facts tragic enough? Why the inflammatory embellishment? . . . The blood bath at Kibya cannot be justified on any grounds; yet the burden of guilt must be shared by the Arab nations whose refusal to meet Israel at the conference table is keeping the wounds of war open in the troubled Near East...
...MEDICAL SERGEANT DAVID B. BLEAK, 21, of Shelley, Idaho: Entered a trench, killed two enemy soldiers with his bare hands and a third with his trench knife, shielded another U.N. soldier from a grenade blast, and evacuated a wounded companion. "As he moved down the hill with his heavy burden, he was attacked by two enemy soldiers with fixed bayonets ... he grabbed them and smashed their heads together...
...from lightening the physician's burden, recent knowledge of the causes and cures in several types of anemia, Dr. Wintrobe holds, has made it heavier. But it has made things a lot better for the patient, provided the doctor uses that pound of thoroughness...
...Burden. In Hazebrouck, France, Postman Maurice Croquey confessed that he had failed to deliver some 800 letters, newspapers and circulars found in his house because they made his mailbag too heavy, admitted burning 200 other pieces of mail because they had been cluttering up his parlor...
...said Sir Winston, "a word about myself." He seemed tired, and his eyes were moist, but with an effort he roused himself for the simple peroration that would proclaim to the world that Churchill is staying put. "If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample feast of both. If I stay, it is because I have the feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence on what I care about above all else-the building...