Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance (but not in the treaty) to invite the U.S. to station troops on her territory. To Russia's charge that Japanese militarism was being restored, he answered curtly that that was a matter of concern to no one more than the U.S.,' "which bore the burden of Japan's war of aggression for nearly four years, as against six days of Soviet Union belligerency." The right of the U.S. to call the tune was a point recognized in other capitals. It was a peace of magnanimity based on power...
Mobilization is a belated step in the right direction; it will be a long time before the Vietnamese army is trained and can begin to take some of the war's burden off the French. For the moment, Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces are licking the wounds De Lattre's hard-hitting campaign has inflicted on them. The situation, however, can change at any moment if the Chinese Reds come...
...themselves, unless they knew that their reputations were ruined? German criticism of other countries is mainly defensive. When a German angrily declares that "die Amerikaner sind auch nicht besser" (the Americans are no better, either), he makes himself feel that he is not the only one who bears a burden of guilt...
...Water. The biggest burden fell on the Kansas City Star and Times, which have the biggest circulation (Times: 353,-836; Star: 363,127) through the Kansas and Missouri rural areas. The Star-Times offices were high & dry in midcity, but Publisher Roy Roberts woke up one morning to find that his ink supply was under 14 feet of water in Kansas City's flooded industrial district. By bringing ink in trucks and tank cars from St. Louis and Philadelphia, he kept the presses rolling...
Portuguese Eisenhower. Its methods are far removed from ordinary U.S. language teaching. "The one word I object to around here," says Colonel Charles Barnwell, the C.O., "is grammar. We don't burden the student with masses of rules and exceptions. Our big ambition is to make a man speak and understand." The speaking begins right in the first class. "Are you a student?" a Danish instructor will demand. "Ja, jeg er elev" [Yes, I am a student], the class must learn to answer. "Is he a student?" asks the instructor. "Ja, han er ogsaa." A class may consist...