Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants of New York's intellectual Left; it began with the arrival of a bunch of New Utopians, their cars laden "with whisky, cans and contraceptives," and left them at the end without even their illusions. After The Groves of Academe (1952), the U.S. progressive college will never be the same again; in that book Mary McCarthy (who taught at Bard and Sarah Lawrence) posed the dilemma of the liberal president...
...Matterhorn, studied at Oxford for a summer, lived with a family in Denmark. Mrs. Gill filled some dozens of notebooks with odd facts and crisp comments. Last winter they came back home and began walking around North America, traveling comfortably between towns in a 1952 Cadillac, which is laden with complete wardrobes (including evening clothes). They have been at it for ten months and 15,000 miles, and feel they have hardly begun...
Outside, Joe knelt in the dew-laden Bermuda grass, tied his shoe laces, then swung off in easy, economical strides toward the neat, white smokehouse. There, ducking under three Tennessee hams and some sides of smoked fatback, he filled a five-gallon grease bucket with wheat shorts, crimped oats and water to make a slop for the four Duroc sows that were nursing their first litters in the orchard lot. To the hog troughs he took the shortest route, leading through the family cemetery behind the house. As the wire gate clicked shut behind him, Joe passed by the chest...
High horsepower is a necessity for today's gadget-laden cars. The new automatic transmission, power brakes, power steering, power seat, and power window lift already bleed as much as 10 to 20 h.p. from the engine. And there is no stopping the gadgeteers: the latest air-conditioning units take another 10 h.p. to cool the air inside the car. Apart from the power-robbing gadgets, few engines ever develop horsepower figures contained in the advertising blurbs. Most automakers measure horsepower by means of a dynamometer: the engine is stripped of its load, ideally tuned and hooked up directly...
...troops. Later they allowed trains to cross the peninsula, so long as steel shutters were drawn over windows. Heavy explosions in the area shook windows in Helsinki several times a week until recently. One night last week explosions were heard briefly again as the Russians prepared to leave. Heavily laden barges put out from the base, carrying equipment and supplies back to Russia...