Word: onus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring up the subject she can easily deny (and properly) having seen the pornographic exhibit and put the onus on me, and my efforts at explaining that this was not the usual sort of picture for you to print, or me to look at, will be increasingly difficult if she claims not to have noticed...
...Silidar cavalry had sweated and suffered the tortures of the damned in the valley of the Dead Sea. Now we were moving by forced marches at night to be on time for Zero Hour, to have the honor of storming an entrenched position, to relieve the Jews of the onus of crusading on their own account...
Through a lighted window shaggy old Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking...
...important contest, the first Toronto game. In that New Year's Eve clash, Newell at times stood up admirably under the fire of the Canadian assault. The outcome of tonight's game depends largely on his performance; and it is possible that he may exceed expectations under the onus of his responsibilities...
...year the protest has gained sufficient momentum not only to undermine what prestige the dance might have left in the eyes of Juniors but also to damage beyond calculation the remote possibility of its making the grade. The Class of 1930 is in a position to shake off an onus of traditionalism, escape an unprofitable evening, and earn the gratitude of succeeding classes...