Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daily public encounters with Mrs. Hicks were growing more maddening. The burden of these other problems made it difficult for White to draw up carefully thought out position papers that would dominate the debate. Others in the city soon began to realize that unless a way were found for White to draw the limelight with stimulating and exciting ideas, he would be left without a positive role, and relegated to a fruitless battle against Mrs. Hicks' emotional chirpings...
...three Arab nations clobbered by Israel in last June's brief war, the one that got off easiest was Syria, whose terrorist raids on Israel had sparked the whole conflict. Syria lost the least territory and the fewest men, was left saddled with the smallest refugee burden and, to its everlasting discredit, came out with much of its military armor untarnished by combat. With hardly a pause, the Syrians thus took up their prewar belligerence right where they had left off. If anything, the Baathist Party members who rule the country have become more brazen; even Egypt...
...Appropriations Committee acted to more purpose. Led by Ohio Republican Frank Bow, they forced a committee vote on a measure that would limit spending during the current fiscal year to $131.5 billion-$5 billion less than the President's administrative budget estimate -with nonmilitary programs bearing the burden of the cut. Appropriations Chairman George Mahon, a Johnson supporter and fellow Texan, managed to defeat the measure in committee...
...months-Ford could not tolerate errors. To avoid them, Beckett filled a 400-page "Red Book" with each of the car's 10,000 parts listed according to projected weight and cost. Each entry was personally signed by a team member, so that success became a personal burden...
...Maybe when I've written it all down," Stalin's only surviving child says, "an unbearable burden of some kind will fall from my shoulders at last and then my real life will begin." What she has written down is a family chronicle of sorrowful revelations and pastoral reminiscences, a series of personal footnotes to a convulsion of history. Now 41 and living in the U.S., she will be remembered as one of the great witnesses to loneliness amidst power, to innocence amidst corruption...