Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politically the speech was masterly. Thirty-two times the President accused his opposition (never mentioning Willkie by name) of deliberate falsification of fact. The burden of the address was prosperity: 1940'$ business figures contrasted with...
...laid down, can always find a reason why the fatal day must be postponed. In their minds there is always a crisis in which their services are indispensable. Always some great work at hand which they, and they alone, can do. Outwardly, they pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that is a curse of kings...
...little custom known as veteran preference. In many instances, veterans receiving an examination grade of 60 or better are placed at the head of the Civil Service list, while no other competitor can even pass his examination without a grade of at least 70. "Youth is blocked by the burden of the past, by old men and old ideas...
...young life's trespasses, receives absolution from the priest. Omniscient Oswald Spengler called autobiography a modern substitute for auricular confession. James T. Farrell has been pouring out powerful, bitter autobiographical tales for eleven years. But he has yet to feel artistic absolution, personal release from the tragic burden of his earlier environment. He plans a series of perhaps 50 volumes. The first 3,000 pages form a major contribution to U. S. literature. But his remorseless pictures of Irish-American life, from the sacristy to the public urinal, are growing repetitious...
...Minas Geraes fields are within 200 miles of the coast and north of Brazil's great port, Rio de Janeiro. Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia...