Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's recommendations, certain to be made law at Parliament's next session, had a practical side. Supporting the Indians is a heavy burden. From $5 million in 1936, the cost has risen to $22 million this year. Since the Indian population is increasing at a rate of about 1,500 a year, the oldtime policy may soon cost more than the country can afford...
...fall to withdraw from the world into the silence where they seek the frontier of the spirit. The retreat usually begins on Saturday and ends on Monday. During that time the group worships and communes together. Conversation is shunned, and the silence is broken chiefly to deliver the burden of a testimony to the group or to pray...
Clarified Issue. More than dollars & cents were at stake. As most of the U.S. publishers doing business overseas were in the red, partly because of the blocked and inflated currencies, few of them felt that they could 1) indefinitely carry the financial burden of telling the U.S. story abroad or 2) expand their foreign editions, as the Government would like them...
...white-tiled receiving room of the Goiaz Evangelical Hospital, four sturdy men put down their burden: a moaning farmer who had been gored in the belly by a Zebu bull. Down the corridor at a dogtrot came Dr. James Fanstone. He lifted the banana leaf that protected the man's wound against flies. "Get this fellow into surgery," he said. An hour later, Dr. Jim reported that the patient was doing well. What had he done about the man's innards? "Oh, I just cleaned them off and shoved them back," he said, peeling off his rubber gloves...
...Irving Berlins' daughter Mary Ellin-whose maternal grandfather was Postal Telegraph Magnate Clarence Mac-kay-became engaged to Dennis Sheedy Burden, a socialite with a Newport background. This moved Manhattan's earthy...