Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, all manner of counterrevolutionary Trotskyites, Bukharinites and other traitors and capitulators. . . . It is common knowledge that. . . Britain and the United States launched their biggest [military] operations only after . . . it had become clear that the Soviet Army was able to ... liberate the peoples of Europe from the German fascist yoke . . . without Allied assistance...
...happened. Eastern's big, four-engined plane, flying the same route at the same altitude, but with a 60-m.p.h. edge in speed, had overtaken the DC-3. The Pilot did not see the smaller plane; the copilot did, just in time. He pulled back mightily on the yoke to drive the big plane over the smaller. It was a good try: a few more inches of overlap would have sent 85 people to certain death in aviation's worst disaster. As it was, it was air transport's most incredible escape...
...question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas, China is still wallowing in the same old rut of poverty, famine, and ignorance, under the yoke of a regime unsupported by a great majority of the people. These generally obscured accounts seem to indicate that Chiang is in no sense of the word, a "democrat," but is instead, a totalitarian warlord. By feeding his war machine, the United States is injuring the Chinese people and is denying...
...Indonesians try to rule their own country, the Annamese revolt against the return of French rule, and they're cut down by machine-gun fire like animals. I can't understand the mental make-up of people who were themselves just released from the yoke of the vanquished and now take up the mantle of Conqueror again...
Then another old man spoke up: "Let , get rid of these Lumpen [scoundrels] once and for all. They have had us under the yoke long...