Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story: When a Congressman asked Secretary Morgenthau whether politics were involved in the President's message, he smiled and said, "A little." A humanitarian ring in the 85 words confirmed this view: "We are engaged in a great national effort. ... It is our duty to see that the burden is equitably distributed according to ability to pay, so that a few do not gain from the sacrifices of the many...
...Indians with blunderbuss and broadsword. For the next 200-odd years New Spain, ruled from Mexico City but extending for a time as far as South Carolina, experienced what some historians have called a Golden Age. The Spaniards brought with them horses (but used the Indians as men of burden), wheat (the Indians still eat maize tortillas), such things as woolen blankets, armchairs, caps (for which the Indians exchanged jewels, silver, gold). The only things the Spaniards gave the Indians were smallpox, influenza and tuberculosis...
...time will tell you. Once more we may be stabbed in the back by another man who has refused to listen to all voices from afar, who has refused all generous offers. He is ready to plunge his own people into disaster. He may deliberately increase the world's burden of horrors. But he fails to understand the moral temperature of France and England. During the last three weeks they have bent, but are not broken. To be sure of this, re-read Weygand's historic communique of last evening, with its citation on the armies in Flanders. This...
...Whereas the English war budget has been considered insufficient, whereas England still owes a large debt to this country, will not the people of the United States bear a financial burden imposed upon them by the British ruling class...
Captain Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, Johnny Palfrey, Chet Legg, and Jack Stewart, all of whom will be playing their last match, will undoubtly bear most of the singles burden for the Crimson...