Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows his time is up," snapped the frail-looking Negro in the embroidered pillbox to 5,500 Negroes packed into Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena one hot afternoon last week. "I am here to teach you how to be free. Yes, free from the white man's yoke. We want unity of all darker peoples on the earth. Then we will be masters of the United States, and we are going to treat the white man the way he should be treated." Roared the crowd: "That's right! More! More!" For more than two hours, as shouts...
Hoffa: I reserve the right . . . when this bill is passed to advertise to every worker in America the individuals who voted to put the yoke around their neck and destroyed their union...
...took over, there were 10,510 cooperative farms; today there are only 1,718. Last week Minister of agriculture Edward Ochab dutifully made Marxist noises about the eventual desirability of collectivization, but told the congress that no government pressure will be brought to force farmers back under the collectivist yoke...
...Hotel Sovetskaya for his first diplomatic reception since last summer, Nikita carefully nursed one small shot of vodka all evening as he toasted visiting General Hakim Amer, Nasser's grinning top soldier, and roasted "the imperialists and colonialists who try to rob and impose a perpetual yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception two days later, Premier Khrushchev announced that...
...good spirits and health despite almost a year in jail. The government prosecutor began his case by reading excerpts from Djilas' book. Sample: "the totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class [i.e., the ruling Communist oligarchy] which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke from under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." Snapped Djilas: "I wrote the truth, from the first word to the last." The judges ordered the press and public removed from the courtroom. Warned Defendant Djilas: "If the proceedings of this trial are held in secrecy...