Word: oxen
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Events are liars-we were not defeated-we were sold, betrayed. . . ." Spain also had her message: "We are glad of the re-election of Roosevelt," the Spaniards told us. "It will mean a certain restraint on certain people! We do not want war-but we are oxen, with the yoke around our necks-dreading to be led to a second slaughter." Portugal, too. . . . We drove over the side of a precipice in the fog-only a small rock had saved our car from rolling down the mountainside. In the pitch blackness, a crew of ten workingmen struggled to save...
...Dunster's day college bills were not paid with money, but with various kinds of foodstuffs. These bills might be paid in wheat, malt, apples, rye, or butter. Cattle, on the hoof, such as cows, oxen, sheep, lambs, and steers, were acceptable; as were cattle slaughtered for meat
...often encountered lions' nests hidden in tall grass while plowing the wild virgin land, and the angry beasts sent natives and oxen running in all directions. Lions showed the utmost cunning in discovering and outwitting his tricks to prevent them from preying on the domestic animals...
...women were torn apart by oxen, broken on cart wheels, cut in pieces by hand saws, steamed to death in hot springs. Rich and poor, city folk and farmers-at least 40,000 of the Japanese Christian community of 200,000 souls-"suffered death calmly for the sake of their Christian faith, evincing no resentment against anyone but, on the contrary, offering prayers for the sake of their persecutors." Such was the great Japanese martyrdom which took place 300 years ago when the Christian community founded there by St. Francis Xavier was suppressed. Christianity has not had a single martyr...
...feeling her creative power had dried up, she had her ovaries stimulated by X-ray and promoted rejuvenation in a novel, Black Oxen (1923). Whatever the source of her second vigor, yellow-haired, red-nailed Octogenarian Atherton has injected a good deal of it into The House of Lee. When the family fortune of the well-bred San Francisco Lees collapses, Lucy Lee, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Edington set about to earn their own livings with glares at Labor and the New Deal. Mrs. Edington rejects a $100,000 cinema offer, strides firmly through her world of clubs...