Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
...confession is an earnest statement of his personal dilemma and that of others like him: "It is in no feeling of gladness that I thus set about revising my picture of the universe. On the contrary, I have the sense of resuming with the greatest alarm and dismay a burden which in the first flush of my agnostical freedom I so gladly laid aside...
Diabetes also increases as the standard of living rises. Labor-saving machinery relieves more & more people of heavy food-burning physical work, and food itself becomes more abundant. Large amounts of food (especially sugar) burden the pancreas. This organ secretes insulin to burn up and store carbohydrates, which have been digested to sugars. If an individual inherits a tendency toward diabetes, his hard-pressed pancreas may slow down or stop producing insulin. Out of every 20 diabetics more than 40 years old, 17 were overweight before the disease appeared...
...over his adversary when being beaten down by an ironbound club. To Gandhi, the Hindu philosophy translated into terms of democracy means "complete identification with the poorest of mankind, longing to live no better than they." To Nehru, poverty is an evil to be uprooted and corrected, not a burden to lie down with...
...soldiers in skirts were evidence that creation of a skirted auxiliary was a shrewd Army move. When first the WAACs rolled into Fort Des Moines the burden of proof was on them. They had to prove that: 1) they were emotionally suited to Army life; 2) they were adaptable enough to take to the Army's ways and like them; 3) they were intelligent enough to master what they had to learn in a brief six weeks...