Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearty rancher and onetime Hollywood lawyer named Herman Welker. Out to "relieve Idaho of the embarrassment of Glen H. Taylor," Welker aimed more oratory at him than at his opponents in his own Republican primary. Welker, a past master of the political cliche ("I wear no man's yoke"), denounced Fair Deal "socialistic schemes," even laid the Korean war on Harry Truman's doorstep...
...route to Far Eastern waters by way of Pearl Harbor was Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone's Task Force Yoke,* made up of the carrier Philippine Sea, the cruisers Helena and Toledo and nine destroyers. The submarine Pickerel and the escort carrier Sicily, its decks loaded with warplanes, were also on their way across the Pacific. Still off the California coast as last week ended, the carrier Boxer and the escort carrier Badoeng Strait were expected to set sail in a few days...
...unfortunate name for a force in a fight where the enemy accused the U.S. of trying to fasten the imperialist yoke on Asia, but straight out of the Navy's alphabet. "Yoke" is Navy...
More U.S. naval strength would soon be available. Forming on the Pacific Coast was Task Group "Yoke," to be made up of the carrier Philippine Sea, two heavy cruisers and eight destroyers. And already operating under MacArthur's command were ships of the British Far Eastern Fleet commanded by Sir Patrick Brind. Sir Patrick could offer for use in the rapidly imposed naval blockade of Korea one carrier, three cruisers and seven destroyers...
...combat this concept our best weapon should be to give all possible aid and reassurance to all people under the yoke of Communist dictatorship, especially the Russian people themselves, Kerensky maintained...