Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be to the eternal credit of the British that for a whole year, from the fall of France to the invasion of Russia, they bore the burden of the struggle alone. After Dunkirk, with only one division of troops equipped to put up organized resistance to invasion of the British Isles, they fought on. They continued to fight on, bloody but unbowed, throughout the blitz. Hitler called them "military idiots...
...biggest burden of the war will...
Quiet, greying President Sergio Osmeña went back to his liberated homeland with a burden of personal sorrow-war had brought death to three of his eight sons.* Last week, in Washington, he publicly acknowledged an even deeper personal tragedy. Two of his sons are in Manila's Bilibid Prison, charged with collaborating with the Japanese...
...that Harry Truman had not gone high-hat. No one had ever doubted Harry Truman's loyalty to his old friends. It is one of his outstanding characteristics. But some Washington observers were beginning to wonder if some of these loyalties might not prove too big a burden. Some thought they could see a "government by cronies" ahead...
...secret service guard in case of the emergency that had now come. Speeding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a White House car, Harry Truman, hard-working product of small-town Missouri, had little time to think of the sudden turn of fate. He had dreaded the burden that might be laid on him. Now it was here...