Word: yoke
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...dramatic shock of the Red attack in Korea, and at first the free world, including France herself, looked on it as a dubious cause. The Indo-Chinese Reds, led by a wily, veteran Communist, Ho Chi Minh, pretended with some success to be patriotic nationalists, rising against the yoke of French imperialism. In France itself, Communists and fellow travelers loudly berated "the dirty war," sneered at their countrymen who returned from the Indo-China theater, and sabotaged arms shipments to the French forces -then only a few thousand professional soldiers defending blockhouses in a far-off jungle against an elusive...
...pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel in the '30s, Author Green wrapped the comedy of a lesser Waugh in the chatter of a lesser Coward. What remains in 1951 is the shell of a satire with about as much yoke as a ping-pong ball...
...massive telescopic camera specially designed for photographing meteors was shipped last week to Harvard's meteor station near Las Cruces, N.Mex. Weighing 5,000 Ibs. and mounted on an odd, horseshoe yoke, it looks like nothing else on earth. The outer lens, 18 in. in diameter, is as convex as a fishbowl. Inside are other lenses, one of them also bowl-shaped, and a 23-in. concave mirror. The film is placed between the lenses and sucked by a vacuum against the curved surface...
...entire machine consists of an electric drive system, a large yoke that turns to follow the motion of the stars, and a telescope assembly hold by the yoke...
...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...