Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have shined his shoes with...
...difficulties. He spoke of his subject's deep aversion to personal publicity, added wistfully, "publicity is a great help to history. . . ." Canadians could understand his problem. They know King's egg-shaped figure, his odd, sliding walk, his academic voice tolling the long, heavy-laden sentences. They do not know much about the man himself...
...morning sun was lacquering the China sky a brilliant red when the B-29 Superfortress Monsoon roared down the long runway. It seemed she would never get off. When the heavy-laden monster finally rose, the crew opened the hatch, only to see the ground still hugging them. Said a crewman, closing the hatch: "Maybe if we don't look it'll go away...
...seemed to retreat-on other fronts. He said that he has no intention of reviving his old weapon, civil disobedience, while the war lasts. He assured Lord Wavell that he wants to aid the Allied cause, recognizes that India is a base of military operations. In a sentence laden with admission that much had happened to him and to India, he said: "I have no intention of taking the country back...
...pressing crowds, vacationers carried babies, hatboxes, bundles, dogs, cats, bird cages, tennis rackets, golf bags and box lunches. They squeezed through train gates, scrambled down baggage-laden platforms, crowded their luggage in passageways, pushed their way to seats, often stood up all the way. These were citizens that the ODT had failed to scare with crowded-train talk, or shame with messages about the wounded needing travel space. What they pushed and shoved and sweated for was a vacation, and they didn't care how uncomfortable they were...