Word: burdening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...occupation of Germany was costing U.S. taxpayers $1 billion a year and British taxpayers $300 million. There was no prospect of reducing that burden unless the British and Americans found a way of putting Germans to work. In the western zones, production was in a slow downward spiral which might become a rapid decline within six months. Some figures from the British-administered Ruhr told the story. On March 3 the average miner there was producing 2.76 tons of coal a day. On March 4, the British cut his rations by 15.5%. The miner's productivity dropped on March...
Despite the Soviet smoke screen, Byrnes's clear affirmative had vastly improved the U.S. position; the burden of proof in a dozen international trouble spots was shifted to Russia, which would now have to show why a U.S. alliance was not a better security than land grabs. Byrnes, after months of feeble diplomacy, had boldly retrieved U.S. leadership...
...Engineers boast a strong, well-coordinated attack, so the main burden of today's contest will fall on Bill Ennis, the squad's new goalie. Also helping to check the Tech forwards will be Don Louria, Jim Graham, and Frank Jessop at the defense positions...
...tells the British to fulfill their trust, to cease mouthing phrases about the necessity of disarming the weak, oil-less Jews, to admit that it is the powerful Moslem states which they fear; it asks Americans to give more than empty words; it challenges the UN to assume the burden its charter claims. The honesty and logic of the report of the Committee of Inquiry will make its conclusions, conscience-like, dog the nations and their leaders until the long-sought solution to the problem of Palestine is a fact...
...then of possibilities, but the preponderance of slaphappy dullness will probably cast it in the role of the most tremendous flop in Broadway history. Unsolved mystery number one is whether Welles backed the show himself or dragged in some incredibly gullible and affluent soul to share the preposterous burden...