Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman reverently kissed a Red tank caterpillar. Far to the north, in a small village in White Russia, villagers caught a Nazi setting buildings afire, dragged him to a bleak cemetery, made him run the gantlet. Too late to strike her blow, an old, hobbling woman, dragging a heavy yoke, screamed: "Revive him, revive him! I must pay him back for my man he killed, for my house he burned." When a bucketful of ice water revived the Nazi, she brained...
Furthermore the U.S. press, that had long ago submitted to the yoke of voluntary censorship, was getting quite used to it. The conference ended, the conferees moved on-Chiang back to China, Roosevelt and Churchill to an "unknown destination" to meet Joseph Stalin. And in Washington on Tuesday morning, U.S. newsmen met with Presidential Secretary Steve Early to get the official communiqué about the meeting and the conferees' decision to whittle from Japan the empire it had been accumulating by force and guile since...
...make the sign of the cross with one hand, while holding his grey cap with its red star in his other. Outside, looking over the roofs at a red, white and blue Croatian flag with a red star in the white stripe, the priest said: "Tired of the Fascist yoke, the priests and people of our community began cooperating a year ago with the Partisans, furnishing them money and food. We considered it the only thing to do for the liberation of Yugoslavs. . . . On Sept. 12 two Partisans appeared and the following night the Italians evacuated. . . . Later [the Partisans] issued...
Thus, prophetically, did the passionate choruses of Garibaldi serenade their Austrian oppressors back in 1866, when most of northern Italy was still under the yoke. Garibaldi's War Hymn lived on as one of the most stirring of Italy's patriotic airs until Mussolini suppressed it in favor of the Fascist Giovinezza...
Louise graduated from Simmons College in Boston, a tidy, short, shirtwaisted feminist bundle of aggressive restlessness. She did research on constructive juvenile activities for a neurasthenic Yale professor until the professor's wife, objecting, among other things, to the openwork yoke of Louise's shirtwaist, fired her. New Haven's lights "were bright and made a glow in the sky. The engines in its factories throbbed and hummed. ... It was breath-catching. Home was a million miles away. This was the maelstrom of life...