Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East China Sea to Formosa. Later, a freighter was to complete the epic task of saving from Communist hands the art treasures assembled over the centuries, and collected in the Peking Palace Museum and Nanking's Central Museum...
...were "far from subversive," Author Hale points out. Greeley himself advocated a more equitable distribution of wealth. As editor of an independent, successful newspaper, he "stood at the center of the turbulence as a barometer, a bellwether, a broker of notions and ideas." Though Marx's dispatches were laden with doom-fraught prophecies of social breakdown, Greeley's young managing editor, Charles A. Dana (later famed as owner-editor of the old New York Sun), happily assured his London correspondent: "They are read with satisfaction by a considerable number of persons and are widely reproduced...
Yale's deep, record-laden squad remains the favorite, however, with Michigan second and Michigan State and Indiana close behind. Harvard, even with the breaks, should finish no higher than fourth or fifth, in a field of fifty-eight teams and no more than 500 swimmers...
...supposedly inexperienced team, this year's sophomore-laden varsity wrestling team showed signs of power which stamp it as an Ivy powerhouse for at least the next two years. The varsity won six of its ten meets, including three of six against Ivy opponents...
Boston College, with a 10-8 record, has a largely sophomore-laden team which has beaten some excellent teams and lost to some rather poor ones. Its more impressive victories have been over UConn, Brown, and Providence...