Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Halifax was sent to Washington in the early days of 1941, he accepted a burden which Winston Churchill called "as momentous as any that the monarchy has entrusted to an Englishman in the lifetime of any of us." Through the trying years of the isolationist debate and the greatest war coalition in history, he won the resounding respect of the U.S. for himself and for his country...
...been looted and burned. The entire country has been shoved by the Soviet bulldozer some 200 miles westward across Europe. Even now the country still lies on the Red Army lines to Germany; every Polish provincial capital has a Russian garrison which lives off the land. But under the burden, life is rebuilding...
...Rand conceded, could hardly be blamed for seeking a closed shop. Said he: "I doubt if any circumstance provokes more resentment in a plant than this sharing of the fruits of unionist work and courage by the nonmember. . . . All employes should be required to shoulder their portion of the burden of expense for administering the law of their employment, the union contract. . . . They must take the burden with the benefit...
...order or command must be lawful for obedience to be required. No person in the Armies of the U.S. can be convicted of disobedience to an illegal order. Of course the burden of proof that a given order was illegal lies on the person who disobeys it. He had better be very certain that it is illegal before he dare disobey-particularly in war. Corollary is the responsibility of the person giving the order for its legality...
...then the staggering railroads in the east and middle west were knocked to their knees by the heaviest burden of all: a record-breaking blizzard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The New York Central's Gardenville yards, a key point just outside of Buffalo, were buried under five feet of snow. In one day, only two freight trains managed to pull out of Gardenville, which normally handles 50 to 60 trains a day. At sidings throughout the north and east, tired, cursing railroadmen struggled to throw switches half covered with snow and ice, kept on the job 16 hours...