Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Words & Tools. Nowhere did the President seem more anxious to pass on the burden of decision than in his precipitous retreat from wartime controls. Said he of the economy in general: "Private enterprise must be given the greatest possible freedom" to continue the expansion of our economy." Said he of housing: "The primary responsibility to deliver housing at reasonable prices that veterans can afford rests with private industry and labor...
...induced by radioactivity may very easily destroy it." Destruction need not be immediate; mutated genes are insidious skulkers. They may lie in wait for centuries in the germ plasm, spreading by intermarriage through the population. Then, when they get their chance, they kill the child in the womb, or burden it with physical or mental defects...
...study of the relationship between the U.S. and other countries is the most realistic and fruitful approach to worldwide international relations. Either a cynical assumption that the U.S. will drift back into isolationism or an over-optimistic belief that the U.S. will carry more than its share of the burden might retard for years the growth of a wholesome spirit of international cooperation. Both the U.S. and the rest of the world have much to learn about what each may expect of the other in the crucial years ahead...
...hundred of them from the American Youth Hostel, Inc. had sailed from New York in June on the Ernie Pyle. They carried plenty of food because they didn't want to be a burden. They took few clothes, because they were going over to work. They were setting out to help rebuild Europe's youth hostels, damaged...
...long time, the P.M. had wanted to ease the burden of hardworking, dog-tired Finance Minister James Ilsley. Now he named Ilsley to the easier Justice Ministry. Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent, who had been handling foreign relations for several months as well, would now devote all his time to the External Affairs Ministry. To fill Ilsley's tough Finance job, Mr. King named young Douglas Abbott, National Defense Minister...