Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal to reduce fares for students was introduced in the State Legislature several weeks ago. It was intended to lessen the financial burden imposed on college students who do not live at school...
...Burden of Morality. When it was Warren Austin's turn, he read a few sentences from his typewritten, heavily corrected text, then suddenly looked up and, off the cuff, tore into the "Soviet bloc who cannot open their mouths in this committee without giving vent to hatred of all independent countries." After he calmed down, Austin sharply and simply defined the issue before...
Public demands for other cabinet changes went unfulfilled. Old Battler Ernie Bevin had become too ill to carry on the burden of Britain's foreign affairs. And a barrage of criticism was hitting War Secretary John Strachey, who, as Minister of Food, had made a complete failure of the African groundnuts scheme, which was designed to get cooking fat for austerity Britain. Even the Labor government had to admit last week that the scheme had failed, at a dead loss to the British taxpayer of $109 million. There was no reason to believe that Strachey would be any better...
...tried to crawl from under his burden of debts by taking a job as commissary for the Spanish Armada, only to run into more trouble. When he commandeered church property, he was excommunicated. When the government found discrepancies in his accounts, he was thrown into jail. Out of jail at last, he went ahead with his writing. Finally, at 57, he published Part I of the comic, compassionate masterpiece that was to win him little of the fortune, but all of the glory he thirsted...
...Malaya, where the British hope other Commonwealth nations will take over some of Britain's heavy burden of fighting the Communists...