Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among Bolsheviks, a danger-laden deviation. Lenin said: "Pacifism is ... Popish sentimentality...
Harper, however, rushed on, while the thieves scooted up Palmer Street toward Church Street, carrying the money-laden bag with them...
...weeks Indians had been filling the markets of Mexico City with Christmas goods. Over the mountains from Toluca and Puebla they had come dogtrotting, their backs piled high with big clay pots (piñatas), their burros laden with little clay figurines of Joseph, Mary, the Christ Child, shepherds, lambs and the Three Kings...
...this sea of grass, Captain King and a steamboating partner, Captain Mifflin Kenedy, launched a modest cattle business. It boomed during the Civil War. They drove cattle and horses to the Confederate troops, and their steamboats, laden with cotton, ran the Union blockade. As money rolled in (at cost plus 10%) they added to their lands, then split up. (The Kenedy Ranch today adjoins the King Ranch...
...Strike Committee representing 20 striking unions (out of the C.G.T.'s total of 38) and was issuing daily communiques. Two million workers were idle. More than a million tons of coal production had been lost; 253 ships were tied up in French ports, more than half of them laden with coal and oil. Since most of the rank & file preferred to remain at work, as the secret strike votes indicated, the Frachon committee met this opposition with violence and by denouncing the secret strike ballot as tending to "dislocate workers' unity...