Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willingly would American citizens shoulder the financial obligations of such proposals? The cost of peacetime security in a modern world has become a Sinbad's burden, exhausting and unshakable. The commission's proposals would mean a national outlay amounting to $82.46 per person in fiscal 1949, as much as $122.45 in 1953. In 1801, when the infant U.S. was surrounded by enemies, the levy per person which was considered sufficient for defense amounted to 72? (in days-of-Jefferson values...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...doubts, there was nothing doubtful about his parting embrace. When Nan held up her cheek he seized her fervidly, planted a lingering kiss which was repeated when she turned the other cheek. Less enthusiastic, Nan replied with a light brush of her lips on his jaw, and patted his shoulder. Then, his face frozen like that of a small boy who wants to weep but will not, he watched her climb into the train for Paris...
Under the plan sent to Congress by Harry Truman, the U.S., in effect, would supply dollars to Europe to buy goods from Latin America. The plan provided that Latins shoulder part of the trade deficit themselves by grants and credits to Europe. But U.S. dollars spent in dollar-short Latin America on goods for Europe might total as much as $300 million a year...
Obviously, G.C.F. needed a transfusion. The best way to get it, apparently, was to merge G.C.F. with Rank's profitable Odeon Theatres, Ltd, an exhibiting company (TIME, Dec. 8). By the merger, Odeon (which is Rank-controlled but partly owned by public stockholders) will shoulder a ?1.1 million debt for unpaid dividends on G.C.F.'s preferred stock and the job of raising another ?2 million needed to continue production on the 44 pictures scheduled for next year...