Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch" calls from relatives to telephone pickets...
...Some of them headed west of Chungking toward Tibet, and into mountain country which no white man had ever explored. Others battled leech-ridden jungles and flooded rivers; one group swam a swollen stream to find the bodies of a B-29 crew, swam back, pushing their grisly burden on a raft...
...interests of the clergy and the psychiatrists don't entirely coincide, but their circles intersect. Both are trying to release people from the burden of frustrations...
...most critical problem now," said Munro, "is the financial burden of the married veterans who are struggling to do good work in college and are supporting a family with limited resources...
...slight, mild-mannered journalism instructor from Missouri stepped ashore at Shanghai. His fellow passengers piled into rickshas, but he could not bring himself to ride behind a human beast of burden. He walked to his hotel...