Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communism. Theoretically it is separated from the Soviet Government, but actually it is the most important branch of that body, controlling foreign policy and spending Government funds. Its prime function is the propagation of Communism throughout the world-a call to the world proletariat to throw off the capitalist yoke, overthrow the existing government, proclaim a dictatorship. "Workers of the World, Unite!" That is its slogan...
France. "We are going to help the Eastern people shake off the yoke of foreign domination. We shall never pay the Tsar's debt to France. We are standing firmly on our feet. The French know they will never overthrow...
...Harnessing German industrialists to the yoke of reparations payments, which they have hitherto evaded...
...does not yoke his steeds so remote from the Yard and the Square, that we on this occident shore, whither also Harvard's alumni have ventured, are insensate to your ninety beautiful years. To think that your ninety years look back to that little day when this great western domain that has since contributed generously to Harvard's generations was scarcely known but in name...
...Government. Premier Macdonald's health was reported to be causing grave alarm. The double yoke of the Premiership and the Foreign Secretaryship were said to be aggravating has already poor state of health. His colleagues in the Cabinet want him to surrender the foreign portfolio. Meanwhile leaders in the House of Commons acted sympathetically toward...