Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the Tablet's readers took the instruction. By last week's end Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, had received "from 50-100 letters," mostly from New York and Long Island. Their burden : Rome must never be bombed; even near by attacks must cease...
There are those who say that the costs will be unbearable. These critics overlook the fact that the benefit payments and to the flow of national income. These critics consider the outlays made as though they were deductions from the national income and therefore only a burden on the economy...
...burden of offense in Tunisia was hoisted last week on to the shoulders of the British First Army. The Eighth Army, exhausted after two weeks of victory and of eating nothing but glory, cold bully beef, biscuits and tea, rested along 30 miles of a front 150 miles long. The First Army and its attached troops held the rest, and did all of last week's preparatory fighting...
...ours, the replacement has to come a long way and it takes time." He also made the point that U.S. and Australian airmen are now greatly outnumbered: "We are forced to shoot down four or five to one to keep the score straight. That's a pretty heavy burden on the boys. I'd like to tell them they could shoot down one for one and still be all, right...
...they were right, if the beginning of Rommel's end had indeed come, it was thanks largely to General Montgomery and the Eighth Army. They had so far borne much the heaviest burden in Tunisia. The British, French and U.S. troops on Rommel's flank had not been able to do much yet. They and the sea had served well as the walls of a kind of cylinder. The Eighth Army had been the piston. And if Rommel was now getting compressed beyond repair, it was because the Eighth Army had done such a splendid job of crushing...