Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trenches of the First World War and the seared flesh of the Second, the stand-off of the Cold War, and the carrion of Korea--these are the events Ford cited as evidence of the ongoing fulfillment of the American dream enunciated by patriots aspiring to throw off the yoke of British oppression...
Love's Labor's Lost is an early comedy in which Shakespeare frolics with words. Sometimes they seem deliberately designed to be mockingly pedantic, zestful in excess. Then suddenly the master of language will yoke his dramatic poetry like a chariot...
...hard, however, for two aggressive men not to covet the major credit for a success as gaudy as Paramount's. A recent 16-page advertising flyer-approved by Yablans -for new studio productions displays his photograph but fails to mention Evans at all. The brotherly yoke may be getting heavier...
Liberation was no small feat for the revolutionary African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, which mobilized opposition to Portuguese domination of the nation's blacks. The PAIGC freed Guinea-Bissau from the yoke of four centuries of Portuguese colonialism that continues to oppress Mozambique and Angola...
Scott also denounced writer and politician Imanu Baraka (Leroi Jones), as an agent for the CIA in its attempts to yoke ghetto youths with "slave labor" jobs...