Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State of a Nation. As Year VIII began, the burden on China's broad and patient back had never seemed so grievous, her strength to bear it never so taxed...
Much of the trouble with "Guest in the House" lies in its self-conscious dialogue. Last night the players seemed to feel that the burden of the play was on them and that they had to give something to the dialogue that just wasn't there to begin with. There was too much straining for the significant gesture and the meaningful phrases, resulting in the loss of much of the easy humor in the opening scenes...
...days of Victoria-"the great white queen across the seas"-had any white woman won comparable confidence among South Africa's natives. Their world is still a man's world, where a bride may be bought with cattle, where a wife labors as a beast of burden while her lord & master drinks Kaffir beer, hunts and squats on his haunches. Mrs. Ballinger had overcome the prejudice. More than that, as their Parliamentary spokesman, she was in a position to weld South Africa's tribesmen, now divided, into a single whole. For the Union, such a move could...
First outcry against the Great Blueprint came not from U.S. internationalists, who still seemed willing to trust Mr. Roosevelt to any limit-but from the small nations of Europe. Cried Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens: "The smaller states are made to feel the burden of war no less, and often more acutely, than the very great powers. It seems reasonable, therefore, that they should have their due voice in attempts to prevent...
...encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship. Here, it seems from the gallery, is the very picture of a wise and charming legislator, beloved of his colleagues, happily resuming his daily burden...