Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some areas; India has not encouraged cultivation of the Cinchona trees from whose bark the drug is obtained (the malaria parasite is showing a rising resistance to the drug chloroquine, a synthetic substitute for quinine). Furthermore, rising petroleum prices have sent the costs of insecticides soaring, placing another burden on the shaky economics of the region. DDT, which cost India about $500 per ton in 1974, now costs...
...cynical Crimson writer noted with tongue in cheek last year that unless partisan onlookers with less at stake can scarcely refuse to pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to insure the survival and success of Harvard's football team." Seth Kupferberg, the author, may have been speaking ironically, but unfortunately there are numerous administrators, alumnae, and miscellaneously-allied Harvardians who feel sincerely ready to pay any price. The Yale game is a big event, to say the least, in terms of effort, commitment, and perhaps most importantly, money. While...
...Colorado in 1919 after 34 speeches in which he tried vainly to sell the League of Nations. There were new doubts when Warren Harding's health failed in the waters off Alaska in 1923 before he expired in San Francisco. The jet plane has reduced the physical burden of presidential travel, but its very ease encourages...
...they had determined to delay deciding any case in which his vote would be the tiebreaker. Once the court's most prolific opinion writer, he also knew, as he said in his letter to the President, that he was now "unable to shoulder my full share of the burden...
...Ford's Administration progressed, Kissinger's two-hat burden and Schlesinger's abrasiveness became more troublesome to the President, and in a way, the two problems began to merge. Last March, when Kissinger's Middle East shuttle collapsed just as South Viet Nam and Cambodia began to fall, the Secretary lashed out at Congress for not responding with more arms and money for Southeast Asia. Ford's advisers again warned that Kissinger was overworked and overwrought. But rather than rein in Kissinger, Ford joined him in an unproductive attack on Congress...