Word: burdens
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...past, the Guard and Reserve were a strategic reserve," General Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, told Congress last month. "They're now part of the operating force of the United States Army." Acting Army secretary Pete Geren agreed. "They have carried a heavy burden in the war," he said. "A third of our soldiers that are deployed have come from the Guard and Reserve and we're going to continue to look to them as part of the frontline force...
With the river houses left for upperclassmen, and all sophomores sharing the presupposed burden of Quad housing, class bonding could continue beyond the sacred freshman year, and students would even feel a greater sense of overall college community...
...tired.” Denenberg recalled the Passover of his freshman year, when two matches toward the end of Passover followed by a practice proved a bit more than matza could support. “We almost collapsed,” said Denenberg. Perhaps the burden of remembering the past was too heavy. Given matza’s tendency to fiercely resist being sufficiently eaten, those who live the unleavened life (not quite the Miller High Life) have to find ways to part the sea of blandness to arrive at the promised land of taste...
...deficiencies in large-scale government response to the politician epidemic have forced small private organizations to carry the burden of keeping our streets clean of politicians. The IOP has served as a model for this cause by attempting to rehabilitate the politicians with the most pressing conditions who fall through the cracks. The institute finds individuals who have returned from exile in the swamp reservation or by a few votes avoided imminent exile. These individuals hope to turn around their lives, and with the assistance of mentors who have successfully kicked their political habits, the politicians enter into an intense...
Will TIME publish a cover image depicting John F. Kennedy crying over "How the Democrats Went Wrong?" I'm sure Kennedy believed it when he said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." But few contemporary Democrats have shown the will to apply his determination in Iraq. Mark Shreeve, DANDRIDGE, TENN...