Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman shifted her burden, answered: "I have five children. I gave my wedding ring for these potatoes...
...hour and a half the Senators hammered away. The burden of what they said: "We have had a lot of promises that action would be taken to clean Communists out of your department. We know this started long before you took over, but this situation has got to be straightened...
...year, changed his mind and came out for the bill in Rio. The little countries were not so sure. Said a Costa Rican: "We have an army of about 100 men. If we get lots of arms and equipment, we'll find ourselves with a real army, a burden on the treasury, with a militarist outlook that would destroy our democracy...
...divisions, 1250 bombers, 2250 pursuit planes, and a variegated complement of assault ships and cruisers. The total number of men involved might approach the million mark, but the force would in any event be large enough to "halt any conflict, though not too large to constitute too heavy a burden," as the French delegation reservedly...
President Truman's courage in opposing again a Congress plainly eager to demonstrate his ineffectualness is therefore laudable. The effect of his veto is likely to be the elimination of the import-fee amendment, and the final shifting of the burden to the Treasury. This act of sweeping the business out of public sight under the rug would obviously be no final answer to the wool wrangle. It would at least, though, spare America the irony of talking world stability up big at Geneva, while at the same time giving it a kick in the stomach long-distance from Washington...