Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other fact emerged: as U.S. forces increasingly assumed the burden of the fighting on the Western Front and committed themselves more extensively in the Pacific campaign, their losses drew closer to those of the British Commonwealth, which now total more than 1,000,000 in five and a quarter years of conflict (including more than 600,000 from the United Kingdom). Empire casualties in World War I were...
...which the present turmoil over the union shop is only the prelude. Philosopher Ruml, admitting that the labor union has a proper and necessary function, approves the principle of the union shop: "It seems inescapable that those who benefit [by union bargaining] may fairly be required to share the burden...
...deficit; above it, he hopes for a surplus to pay off the national debt. Taxes, once set, would be left alone. In addition he would reform the tax system along the lines of the now familiar Ruml-Sonne plan to abolish corporation taxes (TIME, Aug. 7), put the tax burden on income taxpayers. As a corollary, he would reform the policy on public works...
Tired, aging Premier Bonomi was not seeking to add to his burdens. A volunteer army, functioning side by side with Italy's regular Army, would undoubtedly be a burden of major proportions. But the Government's demand might goad the unwilling Allies into giving Italy the enhanced military and political status it had been vainly seeking for months. For Premier Bonomi, as for the leftists, the volunteer army was a political weapon...
...build-up was terrific. Sport pages groaned with the burden of adjectives striving to describe the forthcoming super-colossus. And when Army and Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games. But the miracle that would have made it live up to the advance billing was AWOL. So was the upset that incurable hopefuls had held their breath for. When it was over, Army was still the best in the land and Navy was runner...