Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the financial eight-ball. Men who must add to the government allotment in order to meet living costs have been forced to readjust strained budgets in order to simplify University bookkeeping. The stream of men petitioning for extensions, the loans, the red tape, the confusion, the added mental burden in face of the price mess, would all be avoided if the term bills could be aligned with the Public Law payments...
...nation's Rotarians and Grand Commanders sweated through the first oratorical field day in five years, the choicest paeans were reserved for the newly-created Philippine Republic and the American colonial policy that sanctioned its independence. But as Washington lays down the white man's burden, and as Congress examines our colonial past in the light of its new halo, this same body might do well to review the legislation that has put the Roxas government on its own. This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill...
...Washington and London the delegation made a poignant plea for democratic aid in solving Hungary's economic and political difficulties. Would the U.S. and Britain be willing to support Hungarian requests for a moratorium on the crushing $200 million reparations burden to Russia? Would the Western democracies side with Hungary on such matters as the revision of Transylvania's award to Rumania? Would the West press harder, against Russian reluctance, for the internationalization of the Danube...
...days last week Harry Truman had time to stop and catch his breath. The burden of crisis had shifted from the presidency to other hands. The tangled issues of OPA, the draft, labor legislation were squarely, if temporarily, up to Congress. Secretary of State Byrnes was off for Paris, trying to crack the Big Four deadlock on peace treaties. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was guiding U.S. plans for control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). Poised at dead center, the President had nothing to do but wait...
...Philippine Cabinet and forwarded to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt replied that the Philippines would be "defended by our own men to the death," whatever the Filipinos themselves might do. The effect of this reply, says Quezon, was "overwhelming. . . . When I realized that [Roosevelt] was big enough to . . . place the burden of the defense of my country upon the sacrifice and heroism of his own people alone, I swore to myself and to the God of my ancestors that as long as I lived I would stand by America...