Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking...
...Progress. Russia's Pokryshkins did not save her, as the R.A.F. saved Britain in 1940. They could not, for in the vastness of Russia's plains the infantryman and the artilleryman bore the biggest burden. But Pokryshkin and his comrades helped to win an uphill fight for the control of Russia's skies, contributed much to this year's victories...
...brighter than at any time since the little Republic was proclaimed 25 years ago this week-Nov. 12, 1918. Beside the Danube, there was a quickening. Along Vienna's Ringstrasse and down the crowded Kärntnerstrasse impudent anti-Nazi slogans appeared. The Viennese smiled again and the burden of the bombed-out German guests from the north seemed lighter. There were new jokes and new decrees by Himmler, prescribing death for convicted jokesmiths...
...miss the violence of its incidents and the somberness of its message (that the conqueror remains a thwarted exile in the house of the conquered). Engineer Aubrey Wall, who will not seduce Gisele, but who kicks an opium-drugged servant to death, is one Englishman for whom the prewar burden of empire was too much. Examining the canals he had built, "his nervous system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate...
Allied blockade, air attack, further losses on the front must inevitably lower Germany's already reduced industrial production, burden and snarl its already strained transport system. In contrast to industry, Germany's food situation is better than it was last year. The 1943 grain harvest in Europe was good, and the Nazis meant every word of their boast that Germany would eat if all Europe had to starve. The German bread ration was recently increased. Yet the black market continues to flourish. One of Germany's sorest shortages is in housing. Nazi figures admit that...