Word: unburdening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft began to lose sleep. He consulted doctors at Walter Reed Hospital, in Cincinnati and in New York. The doctors prescribed deep X rays and cortisone, put him on crutches, insisted that he keep his weight off the hip bone. They also insisted that he unburden himself of most of the weighty chores that go with the job of majority leader. For that reason Taft had personally selected Knowland to handle the day-to-day routine. He would continue to handle high policy matters himself, and would attend White House meetings insofar as his treatments would permit...
...work considerable hardship on many who find extra study vital to their Harvard education. Two years of summer work can help many students cut mounting College costs by lopping off a year from the normal four year program. While, for most students, the School provides a unique chance to unburden an often crowded winter program. And to make an academic summer still more palatable, the School features smaller classes (the largest is 80), lower prices, and new social ratios. But with increased costs everywhere, the school must explore new ways of increasing Harvard interest, if the low prices...
...also suggest that Dean Watson unburden himself of responsibility for film showings, for seeing to it that the laws of Cambridge are respected, for making sure that the groups do not strangle each other or pull each others' hair, and let the organizations do the worrying. Unaccustomed as he is to enforcing freedom on students, that is what he should...
...Director Frank Tuttle (College Holiday), a lean, greying oldtimer, who came all the way from Vienna, where he has plied his trade since 1949. Tuttle was only too happy to unburden his conscience. He had been a Communist, all right, from 1937 till 1947-when the C.P. line got to sounding too violent for his taste. Witness Tuttle ticked off a long list of his ex-party comrades, most of whom had been brought to the committee's attention by earlier witnesses. "There is a traditional dislike among Americans for informers," he admitted. But, said Tuttle, "a ruthless aggression...
Come, Sweet Death. Author Wharton tries to make the maze of modern experimentation seem simple and straightforward by using the Philip Wylie technique of creating a few plain-talking "characters" and letting them unburden themselves to Whartonesque psychiatrists and sages-thus giving a coat of fictional jam to his strictly nonfictional pills. Chief of these characters is successful, middle-aged Businessman George Burton; chief of George's problems is simply that "for months he had been sinking into deeper and deeper depression . . . was alternately bored and afraid . . . Hardly a day passed that the thought did not cross his mind...