Word: lightens
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Getting Heavier. Behind the Anderson-Dillon mission was no mere Shylocking or even any desire to lighten the burden of international assistance, which the sweating U.S. taxpayer has borne almost alone since World War II and which is the fundamental cause of the U.S.'s international-payments difficulties. What was at stake was the dollar's ability to go on serving as the free world's basic currency -a state of affairs on which, as the allies well knew, the health of their own booming economies depended. To help support the dollar and halt the flight...
Even in darkest Congo, female companionship can help to lighten the surrounding gloom. The Congo's harried leaders last week could be grateful for two comely women flitting happily around the candle of fame...