Word: burdening
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...listen to the singing of Mirwais Najrabi, a pale, chestnut-haired 13-year-old. He performs in an open courtyard, under the night sky, to an audience that has endured so much suffering and grief over years of oppression, war and mayhem. Yet for this brief, transcendent moment, their burden is lifted by the exquisite purity of the boy's voice...
What will my Vietnamese hosts think when they see me get off the plane with crutches and a cast? They don't need the burden of a disabled American descending on them--and how am I going to climb over the earthen dikes that I am coming to film...
...even the godfather of Social Security himself. In a 1935 letter to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, wrote of his hope for the “promises of private investment and private initiative to relieve the government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled.” Indeed, President Roosevelt unsuccessfully proposed adding “voluntary contributory annuities by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age.” Sound familiar? It looks like we are only about 70 years too late...
...industrious teen who came to Miami from Honduras nine years ago, he scored well enough on his SAT that he was being recruited by Stanford University. But despite the tuition aid he could have received, Guzman felt that he and his family weren't ready for the heavy financial burden of four years at a prestigious college. And despite his good grades, Guzman was worried that he wasn't ready academically either...
...puck to sophomore Caitlin Cahow at the right face-off circle, who then threaded a pass to Corriero at the left post for the easy one-timer. From that point on, Corriero, being hawkeyed as the collegiate single-season goals record-holder, yielded to Vaillancourt to shoulder the offensive burden...