Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House. The caisson and its bright-colored burden rolled slowly along, small in the broad street from which Franklin Roosevelt had so often waved to cheering thousands. The sun seemed to grow hotter, the drums throbbed and muttered on & on. At last, the caisson ground up the graveled White House drive. The coffin was carried out of sight into the executive mansion...
...Nazis, as their integrated state shrank about them, the problems of defeat were insoluble. A decree by Hitler last week divorced Nazi Party duties from local government affairs. The German radio said that it was done to free busy Nazi officials from the burden of local administration. More probably, it was to free them for flight to their last-ditch Bavarian bastion...
...Burden of Shame. Before the day was out, the plump, myopic Son of Heaven called a trusted Court attendant and Elder Statesman, aging (77) Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, President of the Privy Council, to form a new Government. On the stooped shoulders of this wrinkled old courtier might well rest the shameful bur den of leading Japan to surrender...
...Rich Man's Burden. The Sun is obviously Field's favorite. Some of the price he has paid to buck Colonel Robert ("Bertie") McCormick's Tribune (with no comics to match Bertie's fine ones, and no A.P. franchise) he tells for the first time. Arguing his (and the Government's) antimonopoly case against the A.P., Field reveals that the United Press charged him a whopping $110,000 a year for its wires. Out-of-town news bureaus and special correspondents cost him another $425,000 annually. A.P. service would cost only about...
Tired Chungking shook off winter's grey chill, admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still holding together, and the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had come back-a little way-from last fall's near-collapse...