Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond Credulity. The German radio filled in the canvas of confusion. Hungry Berliners were told to plant potatoes in their flower pots, in order to ease the burden on the strained food supply system. Sailors on the Baltic were ordered to scuttle their ships should there be danger of capture by the enemy. Bank clerks read the Swiss quotation for the Reichsmark: 2,500 to the dollar. Every German could hear the shocking official broadcast...
...against reparations to the extent imposed at Versailles because he was sure Germany could never pay and that the economic burden would breed another war. By Washington account, Elder Statesman Baruch will join this time in the proposition that if reparations are heavy enough, Germany will never be able to go to war again...
Said the Prime Minister: "It will fall to us, as the largest Party in the existing House of Commons, to arrange for a general election. . . . Should we be successful in the election a very happy burden will fall upon our shoulders. . . . The job has to be finished and I am here to tell you that we must brace ourselves. . . ." Caretaker Coalition. This much was not unexpected, but what set party quid nuncs a-buzzing was Churchill's next canny pronouncement: "Should it fall to me, as it may do, to form a Government before elections, I shall seek...
...famed Eighth (which Monty rolled from El Alamein to Tunis, and which is now bogged down in Italy), the Second had the hard job of holding the anchor at Caen, in Normandy, while Bradley's men made their spectacular breakout. The Second now carries the main burden of British hope and British pride in western Europe. It has had no full-scale action since it pushed the Germans behind the Maas River last autumn...
...Crimson will have southpaw Johnny Knowles, up from the B-team, Ronnie Wright, of intramural softball fame, and a couple of newcomers, Bill O'Neil and Bill Johnson. "If one or more of these boys comes through," says Stahl, "Wallace shouldn't have to carry as heavy a pitching burden as he did last summer...