Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as Ferguson quit, the burden was taken up by Wisconsin's huge, garrulous Congressman Frank B. Keefe, bent on proving that somebody was highly unprepared for war in 1941. (Congressman Keefe had prepared for it by voting against Lend-Lease, against arming merchant ships, against extending the draft that August...
...fury of his assault left him wide open for counterblows. Prim Prime Minister Clement Attlee answered in the most effective political speech of his 23 years in the House. Smiled Attlee: "The burden of Mr. Churchill's remarks is this: 'Why, when you are elected to carry out a Socialist program, don't you carry out a Conservative program?'" Churchill sat quietly while the House cheered Attlee...
...Burden of Proof. The U.S. had shouldered the task of formally proving the existence of this conspiracy. It was a difficult, delicate and important effort; in all the world's history such a thing had never been tried before...
Belatedly-and somewhat reluctantly -Harry Truman had pinned all his hopes on the Labor-Management Conference. As the 36 delegates settled down to work this week in the paneled rooms of the Labor Department, they carried a burden of responsibility and trust such as had seldom been placed by a President of the U.S. on a group of private citizens...
...Members of the Air Coordinating Committee: Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert Lovett, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce William Burden, Chairman of the CAB L. Welch Pogue