Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orientation programs and discussion groups the Army has endeavored to promote thought and interest in current events, postwar problems, etc. . . . And now comes along a Congress filled with frightened partisans who do not want to burden "our boys," or enlighten them, with political topics...
...Burden and Credit. One man more than any other had a right to exult over this fruition of Red air power. Rescuing and rebuilding the Air Force, after Germany's assault had all but knocked it out, had been no one-man job. But one man shouldered the heaviest part of the burden and in Russia he gets the lion's share of the credit. He is Marshal Alexandr Alexandrovich Novikov, chief of the Red Air Force...
...Burden of the Vanquished. Italians who understood the harsh terms of the armistice cried aloud. They complained that anti-Fascist Italians were being done a gross injustice. They declared (with some reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe...
...Burden of the Victors. In short, what the Italians wanted was full nationhood, and they wanted it while their late enemies were still fighting their late Allies, the Germans, on Italian soil. Such demands inevitably irritated Frenchmen who had not forgotten Mussolini's stab in the back, Britons and Americans whose comrades had lately fallen under Italian fire, Greeks and Yugoslavs whom Italians had lately robbed...
...said it would let the industry make experimental postwar models. Again the automen said no. Their biggest manpower trouble lay in the engineering and drafting fields, where the burden of reconversion and new model planning would fall. The industry wanted to start by producing 1942 models; fundamental engineering changes are a big, long-time...