Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agents and dupes of Naziism who "have represented themselves as pacifists when actually they are serving the most brutal warmongers of all time." Next day the President went ashore, headed north for inspections of Fort Jackson, S. C. and Fort Bragg, N. C., then back to resume his burden at the nerve centre of the world's diplomatic headquarters...
...years of peace that followed World War I, Germany complained long and bitterly over the "intolerable burden" of reparation payments to the Allies. The original debt of $32,000,000,000, payable in annual installments of $500,000,000 each, plus a tax on her exports, was scaled down by the Young Committee in 1929 to $26,350,000,000, the yearly payments decreased. In 1932, when Germany ceased to pay, the Allies had collected some $9,000,000,000-a little less than twice as much as the territories occupied by Nazis (excluding Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria...
...Magna Charta, which not only has regard to the rights and laws upon which a healthy and advancing civilization can alone be erected, but also proclaims, by precept and example, the duty of free men and free nations, wherever they may be, to share the responsibility and burden of enforcing them." Concluded Britain's Churchill: "In the name of His Majesty's Government ... I offer to the United States our gratitude for her inspiring act of faith." In the House of Commons, where these words were spoken, members on the floor smiled and waved at the gallery, where...
Shelved was the domestic New Deal; in obscurity, unfriendly or dead were nearly all his original corps of New Dealers. He was now so tied to his desk that even Hyde Park weekends were rarities. With the Lend-Lease Bill passed, the burden of action was on him; he must move with speed on a thousand fronts. Like fighter planes attacking bombers, rumors zoomed and dipped about each of his acts...
...burden of his speech was urgent: "Never before in the history of our sea power have we had such need of many more ships and great numbers of men." Britain was at last wide awake to the immediate threat of the counter-blockade, had at last realized that this time the sea offensive was incomparably more dangerous than...