Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
...well-informed on musical matters know him as a musician of outstanding merit whose littlest interpretations are fraught with beauty. So it was last week that Philadelphia greeted him cordially, even as he stood on the throne of so great a god as Leopold Stokowski, away now on his mid-season holiday; and that Manhattan paid him like honor when he brought the Philadelphia Orchestra there...
Undoubtedly the execution of the pledges of the campaign managers is fraught with difficulty. National budgets have assumed proportions which, in a sense, defy accuracy: local aid must frequently elude the party ledger; while human fallacy is an ever-present factor. The existing is still far removed from perfection, but if the two National Committees approve, even under the constraint of public opinion, something of a step has been taken in the financial purification of campaigns...
...forth to facilitate gesturing; and from the unreality of the gesture which the young man made while saying, "We denounce." People who denounce in their own words do not need to study their gestures. Moreover, many a Norris phrase was there: "bankruptcy has stalked," "the spectre of peasantry," "fraught with peril," "free farms, free homes, and free...
Private secretary to the Governor of a sovereign State is a position fraught with grave responsibilities. Captain Herman A. MacDonald of Boston has been finding this out lately. Capt. MacDonald is secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Last month, feeling facetious, Secretary MacDonald wrote and published a letter in which he called a fellow citizen a "Mexican General." The Mexican Consul at Boston took this as a national insult and demanded an apology from Governor Fuller (TIME, April...