Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time that the unions "have us over a barrel," and that the unions prolong negotiations so long that when contracts are finally signed the Met has little time to plan its season properly. But for all its mutterings about the iron hand of labor and the burden of its big payroll, the Met management itself had not done all it might to simplify its staging, by using unit sets instead of cumbersome pieces that take 80 men to get in place...
...experienced what I am told is the customary sense of embarrassment at having a fellow-creature act as one's beast of burden, but mine was such a wiry specimen, weighing as he did well over 80 Ibs. and amazingly fleet for a man of 60 with tuberculosis, that I quickly overcame my compunctions...
...President was outwardly determined and confident. He was not motivated merely by stubbornness. He had grown to like the job which he had once considered an overwhelming burden. He felt that a challenge had been thrown out and that he must meet it. In 1940 most political observers had counted him out as a candidate for re-election as Senator from Missouri, but he stuck out the race and won. He felt that he was in a comparable situation...
Married. Mary Ellin Berlin, 21, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin; and Dennis Sheedy Burden, 28, Newport and Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
...failure of this funerary passion, the intrusion of an Englishman named Dennis, who works in a neighboring cat & dog cemetery, the Happier Hunting Ground, and Miss Thanatogenos' love-death, are the burden of The Loved...