Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lincoln Gordon, associate professor of Business Administration, speaking on the program with Mason, emphasized the burden ERP places on the taxpayer and declared that the Marshall Plan gives little stimulus to inflation in this country. In fact, prices began to decline in August just when ERP spending was at its peak, Gordon added...
...This program will get new ideas out in the open where they can do the class some good," Frank W. Rech 3L, Secretary of the Union, commented last night. "It will take some of the burden of administrative detail off committee members and give them a chance to concentrate on class affairs on a broader scale...
...Beast of Burden. This chromium-plated razzle-dazzle was not only G.M.'s recognition of the approaching buyers' market for all cars; it was also a salute to the role which the automobile plays in U.S. life. To the average American, a car is much more than a chromium-jawed beast of burden. It is the next thing to being a member of the family, regarded as affectionately as the Bedouin regards his camel, or the Mongolian tribesman his shaggy pony. It is both a necessity and luxury, a help in making a livelihood and a means...
Warren made a speech which demonstrated his infinite capacity for the revolving, roller-bearing, dipsy-doodle phrase. He "took up the burden" . . . "entered upon consecrated service" and promised to "eliminate roaming livestock from the roads." He promised that one & all could come to his office and see him, though, he added with a wink, "... it will help a whole lot if you voted right...
Politics, Lancaster found, is a Greek passion rather than an onerous civic burden, and politicians "enjoy a regard which . . . can today be claimed solely by the more popular American film stars." Occasionally, the passion leads to refinements probably not dreamed of in Marshall Plan philosophy. At an orchestra rehearsal, "the composer of the work in progress having informed the orchestra that the next 25 bars of his tone-poem represented the triumph of democracy over Fascism, all the strings got up and cheered and the brass and percussion walked out in a rage." The woodwinds (who in Greece "are almost...