Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...diplomatically attentive to the wives, earnestly attentive to their husbands. What he said to them, although not new, was off the record. The burden of his speech was the Administration's friendly feeling towards U.S. business, a point which he made without humbleness and without apology for the past history of the Fair Deal. The evening ended in a brisk flurry of hand clapping, and Charles Sawyer drove glowingly home to his Palm Beach apartment...
...Many people [think] that there is no real distinction between science and technology . . . This ... is not only a very superficial view, but a very dangerous one. The implication ... is that the burden of scientific research, though it was largely carried by the universities during the igth Century and the first quarter of the 20th...
...seventh story is worth the rest of the book together. Little Foxes recounts how a few enlightened Englishmen nobly shouldered the white man's burden in an Ethiopian province, and introduced civilization in its highest form-the fox hunt. With an efficiency extraordinary in the colonies, they soon had organized the whole province around the hunt, so that it became an indispensable function of government...
...autopsy, requested by the defense, suggested two possibilities. First, the defense might be trying to prove that Mrs. Berroto died of cancer and not from the air injections. Second, the defense might have thought that an autopsy would not show cause of death, thus throwing the burden of proof on the state...
...With the burden of defense testimony out of the way, the trial is expected to end soon--possibly this week...