Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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General MacArthur-for carrying successfully for ten years the burden of other men's mistakes...
Like many businessmen, Barron's Weekly was fed up with Washington's failure to tell businessmen how big the armament burden would be next year. In this needling mood, Barron's last week framed a letter to stockholders from a mythical company whose management was just as hazy about the future as the Administration and the armed forces have been...
...were pure guesses. This was made plain by Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr., who said that it was not yet possible to provide a broad blueprint of what military requirements were going to be for fiscal 1951. Without such a blueprint, no one could tell how big the arms burden would be and what controls would be needed...
What happened to Halliday on his journey East is the burden of Budd Schulberg's third and best novel, The Disenchanted. As in What Makes Sammy Run? and The Harder They Fall, Schulberg has borrowed the handy, ready-to-wear drape-shape of the thriller to dress up his story. He has filled that shoddy garment with a human being whose words and acts carry a raw, boozy reek of vitality. Manley Halliday is one of the few credible portraits of a writer in recent U.S. fiction...
...burden would fall on the nation's youth, 1,100,000 of whom turn 18 every year. Assuming that 30% of them would be rejected as physically or mentally unfit, the fit would be barely enough to fill the annual quota of 750,000. Under the present law they could volunteer or be drafted. But last week, adding confusion and solving nothing, President Truman raised the question again of universal training. He left out the "military," as he always does in discussing the ticklish subject. To the convention of National Guardsmen the President said: "Eight times I have asked...