Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of Finland are not afraid of realities, but we cannot much longer continue to bear the burden of a costly war, our second in less than three years. Now that we have attained our strategic goal, why continue the increasingly unpopular and costly...
...mental cavern is retreated to and explored (Joyce's was a Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden of the manifold texts of Finnegans Wake," and of Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Gide, Eliot, Mann...
Except for the shifting of Orrin Wood to a defensive slot, the Hoddermen will line up with their customary starting six, Stan Collinson, Tommy Ayres, and Harding on the forward line, Captain Dick Mechem and Wood sharing the burden on the defense, and Gus Summers, who has limited the opposition to three goals in as many starts, back in his familiar post a goal...
Correspondent Stowe's parting snipe was a mixture of hysteria and bad taste: "The Burma Road abuses definitely threaten to throw a much larger burden of combat throughout eastern Asia upon the Americans and the British." The Chinese remembered that for four years they had borne all the burden of combat in eastern Asia...
...America. In 1941 over the world's measureless acres of misery the war lay like a burden too great to be carried, too great to be thrown off. The year 1940 had been the year of surrenders, but in 1941, from France to Poland, each day brought proof that the peace of surrender, balanced against the peace of death, left little choice between them...