Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation already groaning with the burden of feeding the world, there was shocking news. Western Europe is running a deficit of $5 billion a year in fuel, grain, oils and basic commodities. In a matter of months a crisis will come. Unless the U.S. goes to the rescue, Western Europe's civilization will collapse and revert to the country-village pattern of medieval times. The receiver in such a bankruptcy would be Communist Russia...
Then he handed them a mimeographed statement. The Mayor, it explained, was retiring because of his age-he claims to be 71, is suspected of being closer to 75. "In justice to my city and my family," he said, "I must pass on the heavy burden of administrative duties to younger men." The younger man he had in mind was his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, 46. On June 17, Eggers would officially take over as mayor, when Hague's city commissioners officially elect...
...Alaskan aviation was zooming. Thanks to the Army's frantic wartime construction, and to war surplus sales (at which an ex-service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
...More in Sorrow." In a recent lecture on "The British Empire Today," Soviet Historian I. M. Lemin was even more lucid about the White Man's Burden (Yankee-style): "The Soviet Union does not constitute a threat to the British Empire. . . . We do not want to intervene in Britain's overseas relations. ... All the screaming, especially by the Americans, about the Soviet threat to the Empire is merely an excuse for the Americans to penetrate into the Empire. . . . The Americans have consistently opposed imperial preference, and it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is threatening...
...Where are ye going?" said a voice with a strong Scotch accent. I stopped and looked. . . . On one of the rocks sat a very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...