Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not realize that isolationism and imperialism are one in then desire to pursue a selfish national immorality, to raise a Chinese Wall in a twentieth century world. If we are willing to alienate ourselves from the rest of the world, if we are willing to bear the double burden of the world's enmity and an enormous armament program--such a policy might purchase us a brief period of a precarious armed neutrality. Inexorably, however, World War III would come--and this time the United States would be alone against those very forces that such a policy of selfish...
...creation. The bill proposes that the 30,000 Federal employees, with salaries over $4500 be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. President Roosevelt has voiced his "unqualified opposition" to the measure which would "turn the clock back" on civil service reform and place a gigantic burden on the already overworked Chief Executive...
...formulate, to clarify, to vitalize the ideals which should animate mankind-this is the incredibly heavy burden which rests, even in total war, upon the universities. If they cannot carry it, nobody else will; for nobody else can. If it cannot be carried, civilization cannot be saved. The task is stupendous...
...relieve DFD's volunteers of their financial burden, a unique fund-raising campaign was launched last week. Brain child of Patent Broker James M. Austin, who has donated some $10,000 to war charities in the name of his famed fox terrier, Ch. Nornay Saddler, the War Dog Fund hopes to enlist as many of the nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Said the Times: "If the moment cannot be seized before the impetus of the Russian advance is exhausted, the enemy may gain breathing space for recuperation. . . ." Said the Express: "The resources of Britain and America must make ready to take over the burden. They must lose not a day, not an hour...