Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet control. The Kremlin's system of terror, which appears to be its main strength, is one of its greatest weaknesses. Dictatorships are based on fear. In China, the failure of the Korean adventure is weakening the hold of the Communist government. Yugoslavia has thrown off the Kremlin yoke. There are growing signs of internal tension behind the Iron Curtain. We are not engaged in a struggle without end. Peace under law is the victory we seek. I am confident that the American people will not yield either to impatience or defeatism...
...readers, with the exception of a few editorials, is not the thoughts of La Prensa but the thoughts of the United Press. The thought-out news [articles] manufactured by the United Press ... are the thoughts of bankers, industries and powerful commercial interests. The U.S. people are also under this yoke, and their leaders are threatened by its enmity. That is why Truman has said he has four or five punches in store for American newspapermen...
...ascendancy . . . The Anglican Church, however, never lost its identity as the English Church . . . The term "The Church of England" is used in the first clause of the Magna Charta, drawn up in 1215. As national feeling grew in Great Britain, the clergy and people began to chafe under the yoke of papal supremacy...
...agent, the secret police. For fear of them and their informers, the Russians had become a nation of liars: "A sincere man . . . would pass for mad." For hatred of them, that could not be expressed, the Russians had become a society of mockers: "The slave . . . consoles himself for his yoke by quietly making fun of it." From the highest noble to the lowest serf, all Russians were equally in fear of the regime's power; all human life was equally worthless in the rule of terror...
...Russian people were the first victims of the totalitarian yoke. They dream not of expansionism but only of the restoration of human freedom ... As to Stalin, he "spits," as Lenin once said, on Russian interests, because Russia must merely be "used as a base for world revolution...