Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protected by aircraft. . . . I'm not a diehard who thinks that any warship can be built to withstand air attack, but I am a die-hard who thinks that the final showdown will be ships of the line against ships of the line, aircraft being equal." The burden of the Navy's new 150,000 tons will put a terrific strain on the present shipbuilding program. But it is expected to creak through. Even though the Navy will get priority over merchant shipping, the U.S. Maritime Commission's Admiral Jerry Land still intends to maintain his ship...
Harvard's Captain Dick Thomas will grapple in the 155 pound group, Harold Tine in the 165, and Bill Turner the 175. Tom Rogstad will carry the Crimson unlimited heavyweight burden...
Every progressive, however, should be grateful to Mr. Kemler for removing some of that unpleasant burden of righteousness under which no man can act freely...
With all of last year's Varsity butterflies lost through graduation, Sandy Houston excepted, the burden of aiding Houston this year seems about to fall on the shoulders of Sophomores Don Harting and Tony Myrer or any other butter flier who shows any promise whatsoever...
...this case I have listened to arguments which might have been addressed acceptably to a court of the king's Bench in the time of Charles I. ... But in English law every imprisonment is prima facie unlawful and puts a burden on the person directing the imprisonment of justifying...