Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cities of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk. They blessed Haji Bush for initiating their salvation, granting the American President the title earned by Muslims who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca. They were certain that the U.S. and its allies -- who had repeatedly urged Iraqis to throw off Saddam's yoke -- would come to their aid. But their joy lasted for only one cruel moment. By the end of March, Saddam's loyal forces had crushed the rebellion, and the Kurds awoke to their perpetual nightmare: defeat and flight...
...nation the idea that "Americans are a caring people. We are a good people, a generous people . . . We went halfway around the world to do what is moral and just and right. And we fought hard, and -- with others -- we won the war. And we lifted the yoke of aggression and tyranny from a small country that many Americans had never even heard of, and we asked nothing in return. We're coming home now proud, confident, heads high . . . We are Americans...
...term yoga comes from Sanskrit--it means, 'to yoke.' Raja yoga, which is what Bunker teaches every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), is in literal and physical terms, a discipline of the body and the mind...
Healy's zeal to yoke public schools with libraries springs from his long commitment to the poor, particularly members of minorities. He firmly believes that in the future, America will be "multicolored" and had better be ready to make the most of it. Some 16 years ago, he tried to start a community college in the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto in Brooklyn (it failed for lack of funding). Perhaps the high point of his career was the years at CUNY where, with fighting-Irish brio, he led the fray surrounding the open-admissions policy, in the early '70s a divisive urban...