Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Defense Secretary James Forrestal was thinking the same way. Said Forrestal: "A continuing burden of military armaments upon this country might produce precisely that result which some of our contemporaries would like to see. It would produce an economic collapse which would so wreck this country as to make its position in the world an impotent rather than a potent...
Everything is free for families who cannot afford private medical care (rheumatic fever seems to be most common among low-income families). But the hospital first checks carefully to make sure that the mother is willing to accept the burden of caring for a child at home, and that the home is not overcrowded or ill-kept...
...director, cheery, pink-faced Alfons Loebbert, a layman, has more of these than Protestant Pastor Reich, since some 400 of the Catholic children are neither orphans nor wanderers: they are children of Berliners, flown out of the city by the R.A.F. at the beginning of winter, to ease the burden of the blockade...
...were kept, Kafka became engaged to a generous and efficient young businesswoman. For five years the affair dragged on, but Kafka finally broke off because the girl could never understand his way of living and because he feared that as a sick and. indigent writer he would be a burden to her. In his diary he yearns for marriage and normal happiness; the thought of children makes him ecstatic. Once an apartment was rented and furniture bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee "wants the average...
...committee also decided to carve the track manager's chores into two divisions, because the fact "that the active track season...extends through two examination periods...put a greater burden on the track manager than was the case in any other sport...