Word: yoke
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...among Harvard students has not felt the oppressive weight of the study card beat upon his or her brow? From the long, hard trek to Sever Hall to claim one’s card, one’s yoke, to the agony of filling out laboriously the myriad bubbles with obscure course numbers, to the patriarchal ritual of seeking out and gaining the approval of one’s academic adviser-cum-overlord, the study card is an institution without which Harvard students will be better...
...founding fathers struggled to escape the heavy yoke of one King George,” Byrd said. “We must not acquiesce to the dictates of another. As Brutus said to Cicero when Cicero was attempting to curry special favor of Antony, ‘Our ancestors would have scorned even a gentle master...
...boil. Following a call to arms by a radical, power-hungry cleric named Muqtada al-Sadr, thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites declared war against a military that had freed them from a heinous dictator. In cities across Iraq, Shi'ite militants united behind the goal of casting off the yoke of occupation by killing or capturing any foreigner, military or civilian, they came across. Together with the fighting in Fallujah, the Shi'ite uprising produced the bloodiest eruption of violence since the war began. In the past week, 46 U.S. soldiers and more than 460 Iraqis were killed. Seemingly overnight...
Under the yoke of a stifling Crimson rush headed by junior linebacker Bobby Everett and his one-and-a-half sacks, Cornell managed just four yards of total offense and no first downs on its first two possessions of the game...
...college students, are the only group of voters who have both the luxury of relegating economic concerns to the background and the extra time to spend actively promoting our social views. We’ll be under the yoke of money and taxes and jobs soon enough. Whatever our social views, let’s vote with our hearts, not our wallets, while we still...